to female and arabella.
Of course we won’t see any of the cheerleaders on this thread. They couldn’t even bring themselves to defend Hubbard at the Olympics, never mind this. Because they know it’s wrong. They know.
But they’re in a philosophical bind, because the worldview demands that you never, ever, ever let there be the slightest deviation from the belief that being a woman is a state of mind and not a physical reality, and any and all risk to women from that position is acceptable collateral damage.
Let’s have a think about what we’re likely to see when a male bodied person and a woman are pitted against each other.
Male upper bodies have approximately 75% more muscle mass and 90% more strength than female bodies. A recent study found that male punch power was 162% greater than female (www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200205132404.htm).
Males have more fast twitch muscle fibres than females, and this difference is made more pronounced the more you train, as males tend to develop more fast twitch muscles when strength training, where females develop a mix of fast and slow twitch. Fast twitch fibres give you speed and explosive power, which means you react quicker, and create more power from the greater speed.
Male bones are stronger and longer than female bones, which means a longer reach, a sturdier structure and a bigger and more solid head. A woman on her thirties will already be starting to lose bone mass. This means a greater injury risk to female bodies.
None of these factors are affected by someone’s gender identity. They apply exactly to a transwoman as they do to a man. If you want to show me how that’s not true, you will need to bring evidence, and that evidence will have to disprove millennia of human development, thousands of years of human knowledge, and decades of scientific research, so it’s going to have to be hot fucking stuff.
It is dangerous, delusional, unscientific fantasy to suppose that pitting women against this fighter is fair, safe or desirable.
It has to stop.