Gender Advantage In Sports

Chair, Members of the House.
As a young girl, I was taught to train and compete with, as well as against, boys. My sisters and I would play football with them, learn strategies with them, celebrate victory with them as it all seemed perfectly natural. However, after reaching a certain age, an age where our bodies started to change, we were suddenly separated, categorised and split into groups, as well as, against all our wishes, asked to train in different teams. As an innocent kid, I could not fathom why we were suddenly differentiated from each other. Ultimately, I had to ask myself, was it not for the best? Were we really biologically capable of competing with and against men?
Throughout the centuries, athletes, both male and female, have

Their bodies are stronger than a woman’s, and have been proven to have more muscular mass, making it an unfair disadvantage from the start. In a boxing match, where body strength is undeniably important, the average man would most likely find it easier to punch harder than the average woman. On the other hand, for sports where flexibility is a key factor, women have an unfair advantage since they are proven to be more agile as well as more flexible. This proves that trying to make different genders compete in the same kinds of sports where they have a clear genetic advantage would make the competition unbalanced as well as not very interesting. A blog article from ‘theconversation.com’ reads “by the end of 1998, the Women’s World Record for the Marathon was still more than 10 minutes behind the men’s”. In addition, the writer states: “in 2016, the gap had increased and the record marathon time for men had increased and was now 12 minutes faster than the women’s (2:02:57 – 2:15:25).” This proves that, although women may be running their fastest and may be achieving their gender’s best records every year, they rarely come close to a record achieved by a