If males were allowed to participate against females in open competitive play, then females would never win. Our federal government knows the importance and benefits that competition provides males and females. Sports provide all athletes health benefits, social/emotional skills, teamwork and helps to build self-esteem. Sports double as an academic and social tool, these lessons and benefits reverberate well beyond the playing field throughout the lives of all female athletes.

 

“The legislative history of Title IX is clear that Congress also understood that even when height, size, and weight are equal, males are incrementally stronger and generate more explosive force, so that if males and females are forced to compete against each other, the physical safety of females is at risk. 

 

At the time Title IX’s athletics regulations were passed, no one raised the issues of gender identity apart from biological sex, or whether trans girls/women with the post-pubescent advantages of biological males should be allowed to participate in the space created by Congress to secure the sport experiences of biological females. Today, however, trans girls/women are asking for the right to compete in girls’ and women’s sport, directly against female athletes, even when they retain some or all of their male sex-linked strength, power, and related performance advantages. For many people, the issue is not whether trans girls/women should be included in women’s sport. Rather, it is whether female athletes can continue to be safeguarded and trans girls/women included within women’s sports consistent with their gender identity.”

https://womenssportspolicy.org/the-issue/