Sex matters in sport

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Every single world record in athletics in track and field from the 100 meter sprint to the marathon, all the throwing, jumping, all of that in women's athletics, every single world record is beaten every year by hundreds of men and every single one has been beaten by a teenage boy.

[00:00:19]So, the the the fastest woman ever across any of those distances is beaten by teenage boys.

[00:00:27]>> Yeah.

[00:00:28]>> So, you know, we have to have women's categories and it is so obvious that we we we don't even talk about it. It's a given. So, this women's category exists in all these sports and then the argument we've had to have is whether we can make exceptions for some men. It's so obvious that you needed that people have kind of forgotten that it required a provision in law.

[00:00:50]And and that's what's been ignored for all these years. You know, women are getting and girls are getting um their own category and then sports bodies are thinking they've forgotten to think about that.

[00:01:02]They've You've got that category now and they're thinking about the poor trans identifying person.

[00:01:09]And they're actually using the women's category to affirm and validate that person. Uh even though it's not their category, it's a female category.