# What the Left Refused to Understand About Women’s Sports  ## Metadata - Author: [[Helen Lewis]] - Full Title: What the Left Refused to Understand About Women’s Sports - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The debate over transgender women competing in women's sports highlights a conflict between inclusion and fairness for female athletes. Many female athletes feel that allowing trans women to compete takes opportunities away from them. As the conversation continues, there are calls for clearer distinctions based on biological sex in sports. - URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/democrats-trans-rights-sports/681130/?gift=SKtFP-7gCBnFn1bNJdqPMmB-dhRC92tZhF1JftsOZHY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > But while Nike estimates that its VaporFly sneakers give a [4 percent](https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/3/20944257/marathon-nike-shoes-running-sneakers-vaporfly-reset-podcast) boost to wearers, the performance gap between men and women is [estimated](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/) to vary from 10 to 50 percent, depending on the sport. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgrnag6370eevm6jh52j7gpa)) > Not everything has to be an entrenched battle of red versus blue: As more and more Democrats realize that they shouldn't have built their defense of trans people on the sand of sex denialism, Republicans should have the grace to take the win on sports and disown the inflammatory [rhetoric](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/nancy-mace-slur-transgender-bathroom-bill.html) of agitators such as Representative Nancy Mace, who responded to the election of the first trans member of Congress by deploying anti-trans slurs. As the second Trump administration begins, the lesson from the college-volleyball rebellion is that institutions cannot impose progressive values by fiat. Attempts at social change will not survive without the underlying work of persuasion. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgrp4yzej5d69bqq28fbhnqj))