{"id":139477,"date":"2023-12-24T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139477"},"modified":"2023-12-24T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:03:22","slug":"new-study-proves-reality-biological-sex-is-a-huge-factor-in-sports-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/new-study-proves-reality-biological-sex-is-a-huge-factor-in-sports-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"New study proves reality: Biological sex is a huge factor in sports performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would we do without studies?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Despite a growing trend of downplaying biology’s significance in athletic performance, a recent study — refreshingly — shows what should be obvious: Biological men are stronger and faster than biological women.<\/p>\n

The study “Performance of non-binary athletes in mass-participation running events<\/a>” by two U.K. university scholars and an independent researcher found that biological males who identify as “non-binary” outperformed biological females who identify as same.<\/p>\n

The Publica<\/em><\/a> reports the researchers examined results from almost two dozen races in the New York Road Runners “non-binary” category, in which both biological males and females can compete.<\/p>\n

Their conclusion: “There was zero evidence” to support the theory that runners’ gender identification as “non-binary” shrinks the biological sex athletic performance gap.<\/p>\n

Lead researcher John Armstrong of King’s College London said that as an “objectively measurable binary variable, sex has considerable explanatory advantages over gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added there is a “lack of empirical evidence supporting gender-identity theory.”<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> \u2018Extra lessons in losing\u2019: Female track athletes sue Connecticut for letting males compete<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur results illustrate that if we want to understand the needs of gender non-conforming individuals, it is vital to control for biological sex as it is likely to play a significant role in any analysis,” Armstrong (pictured) <\/em>said. “Both sex and gender identity should therefore both be considered useful explanatory variables in data collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Publica<\/em>\u00a0notes how a “non-binary” biological male won a New York Road Runners race in the “non-binary” category earlier this month — and won a $500 prize, the same as the winner in every other category.<\/p>\n

Need it be mentioned that this “non-binary” winner’s time was a full ten minutes slower than the top men’s finisher … and four minutes slower than the women’s category winner?<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Armstrong got into a bit of hot water<\/a> with the King’s College London Research Ethics office for using the term “males” for gender-dysphoric men in a survey. He was told his language was “not sensitive” and that the “misgendering of athletes is not appropriate.”<\/p>\n

The Armstrong, et. al. study is unlikely to dissuade gender theorists and transgender advocates from claiming there’s either no or insignificant differences between the sexes in strength and speed.<\/p>\n

Remember last month’s Scientific American<\/em> piece which claimed<\/a> the \u201cinequity between male and female athletes\u201d is due to \u201cbiases in how [the sexes] are treated in sports\u201d — not biology?<\/p>\n

And what about the researchers who said<\/a> concerns over transgender females (biological males) competing in women’s sports have little to do with fairness, but are just manifestations of conservative politics and biases?<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> Average HS male runner becomes top-ranked female after gender transition<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES: Shutterstock.com; GBNews\/YouTube<\/p>\n

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