Are Trans women the problem in women’s sports?
Are Trans women, competing in women's sports really the problem? As I dove into my research on why I didn’t think it was fair that trans women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, it soon became apparent that I wouldn’t need to do my research on women’s sports instead.
In almost every article I read, the topic of interest was almost immediately changed to why women’s sports aren’t treated equally to men’s. One of the accusations in the NBC Sports article was that the NCAA doesn’t do enough to promote women’s sports. As a sports watcher myself, I don’t like watching professional sports. I would rather watch college sports. Many people watch men’s sports more because they are faster and that’s because their bodies are better built for challenges like these.
Another huge problem that is in women’s sports is doping violations. At the 2012 London Olympics 21 medals were awarded in women’s weightlifting and after further inquiries, 11 out of the 21 medals were stripped. That’s a whopping 52% of the medals given. While it is more common in men’s sports, because it’s easily detected in women’s sports, there are still those few women who make history. For example Marion Jones’s won 5 medals at a single olympic game. She was said to be the fastest woman on Earth. Jones was later stripped of her medals when she admitted to doing performance drugs.
Do you think that the NCAA supports men’s sports more than women’s?
Do you think that women athletes should be paid as much as men? Why or why not?
Sources:
https://oberlinreview.org/1447/sports/performance-enhancing-drugs-more-common-in-men-than-women/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trans-girls-belong-on-girls-sports-teams/
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Good topic choice and well done overall Emily! I think your summary barely scratches the surface of this issue and because of that, I would say that you could have expanded a bit more on this topic.
I definetly think that NCAA supports mens sports more than womens, and for good reason because they bring more fans and with more fans comes more money. I do not think that women athletes should get paid as much as men athletes because they do not have as many people come to their games and do not generate as much income.
I think the NCAA likes men sports more becasue there are more famous players on the men side and not as much on the women side. I think they should be paid the same because there both doing the same amout of work and trying hard so it should be equall pay.
Socially, I understand the need for the athletes wanting to compete -- but right now we must first discuss human biology. From a purely scientific standpoint, it is unfair. First, the person may be in a different stage of transition than another. One may be a month into horomone therapy -- another five years into therapy. The person who is only a month into horomone therapy and is a trans-women socially, has a body of a male, physically. You cannot change your body structure completely -- it's near impossible. So what do we do now? This is the major dilema. Should we assess each athlete based on their pure physical structure and sort them that way? You see, it becomes much more complicated and becomes a very, very big mess. I understand how acceptance is important to these people, but they must understand fairness comes first.
I understand what you want to say. After some research there are rules, you have to be atleast 2 years into treatments. You also have to have your testosterone levels down low enough to compete in the women's sport. Now after I researched that I found out I was in the wrong and science sometimes does a lot more than rumor. That's why I chose my topic to be on why the NCAA doesn't support women's sports as much as men's.
I think the NCAA cares more about men's sports because people like watching them more and they can make more money off it. but I do think both men and women should be getting paid the same because women also put in the same effort that men do.
While I kind of disagree with that statement, I think that the NCAA just needs to do a better job advertising men's sports. I think this because you always hear about March Madness, and all these football games. You rarely hear of volleyball, or women's basketball.
I think that NCAA definetly supports men sports more than womens sports, but I think they support the mens sports more because more men than women do spaorts and I feel like more people watch mens sports than women. I do think that the womens sports shold be getting paid the same amount as the men do because they are doing the same sports as men.
This is coming from someone under the trans umbrella, I think trans women should be in sports BUT only after they've been on hormones for at least 2 years, so that their body type is more similar to a women, and not a man. Women athletes should be paid just as much as men, they're doing the same amount of work, and sometimes, are even better than men(not trying to be sexist here). I think that the NCAA supports men's sports more than women's because people might be more likely to watch men's sports than women's.
Trans people are allowed to participate in their category of sports. I can see where your coming from thinking that women should be paid as much and I sort of agree. I think that if the NCAA would support the women and get them rolling in some cash then they would definetly deserve to be paid as much.
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