're just the same level.

So what do people say when I say no, no, there wouldn't be any women's team that has a transgender athlete on it. There would just be teams. What do they say? Scott, Scott, don't you understand that men are bigger than women? I don't know what to do with that. I can say a thousand times, yes, my preferred solution is that everybody plays with people who are their same level in all cases. And somebody will still say I'm an idiot because then a 200-pound man will be playing against a hundred-pound woman. To which I say no, never. That will never happen because they wouldn't play on the same team.

So the reason that I enjoy this topic is because it triggers people like crazy. And the triggering I find amusing and educational because you watch where their blind spot is and they can't see it but it's easier to see from the outside. And here's the blind spot that triggers people: there has never been any good reason for male and female separated leagues. So that's the reason that people can't see what's so obvious in front of them. So they're not disagreeing or agreeing with my opinion. They actually can't see it because they're starting from a place that there must be male sports and female sports. And somebody said, you know, the whole reason for that so that, you know, women don't get hurt. They're not, you know, competing in these male sports and getting hurt.

And I said that's not the reason. In the comments tell me the reason for male and female sports. What's the reason? Why is the reason we have it now? Because I said we just get rid of it. The reason is just politics. The reason is power and politics. Women as a group wanted it so they, there were enough women to get what they wanted.

What if all the men who were under five feet tall decided to organize and say no, every school and every professional sport should also include people who are under five feet tall and we want our own league because we can't compete with large men and we can't even compete with large women. We're under five feet tall. So shouldn't we have our own league? To which I say well it makes as much sense as anybody else having their own league but you don't have the power. The only reason that short men don't have their own sports leagues is because they don't have any power. They're not organized. Nobody cares at all.

So once you dispense with the fact that there should be male sports and female sports, there was never a reason for that. And now people said to me, but Scott that means that a woman can never win first place. How is that fair that the only person getting first place like the best of the sport is gonna be a guy? How is that fair? To which I say how was it fair now? I'm not in first place. If I become a professional boxer do I have a chance of being first place? If I join the NFL do I have a first chance at being on the team? 99.999% of all men can't make the team if we're talking about the high-level teams. And a hundred percent of women can't. Is there really a problem if men and women are so similar that 99.999% of men are in this situation that's the same as a hundred percent of women? Is that it's different? I mean it's different by point zero zero one but still there are only a few special people who get to be number one at all.

Does it really need to be a number one man and a number one woman? And secondly the market would adjust and you would still have the best woman in the world. People used the Serena Williams example so I'll use that. Let's say we got rid of men's tennis and women's tennis and it was just one ranking. That would put Serena, let's say she's number 400 in the world, maybe it's a thousand, whatever it is. Do you think there would be no interest in watching Serena play if she was exactly the same person she is now but instead of being number one in the women's league she's number 600 in the league? I think there'd still be a market because that whatever reason you wanted to watch her play before, why has that changed?

I would think it would be exciting to watch a woman compete whether she's competing against a man or a woman if you're handicapping it in your mind for the fact that, you know, you know that if it were Nadal or a man that they would be even better.

Now let me give you this analogy. When my stepdaughter used to play soccer in high school I would go and watch those games and they were super entertaining, more entertaining than professional sports. I loved watching high school and junior high girls compete. It was great. It was every bit as fun and entertaining as watching a professional man's team play. So why would that change? Like I would still enjoy watching them play at any level.

So yes it would be worse for a very small number of women, the ones who could be the best in their sports. It would be worse for them to instead of being number one to be number 600. But do you care? I mean if it's let's say better for some transgender folks but worse for Serena Williams it's about a push. It seems about the same fairness-wise anyway.

I haven't seen it yet in the comments but I guarantee you there's somebody in the comments who's gonna say to me, Scott you're so stupid because that means large men would be playing with small women and hurting them. No, no, not saying that.

All right, somebody says it would be worse for all women. How? Tell me one way that it would be worse for all women. Again I'll use my stepdaughter as an example. She did not play on the school team. She played in a recreational league. And so instead of sitting on the bench on the school team she got to play every game and do well against people her level in a recreational league. Was that bad for my stepdaughter that she didn't get to be on the school's team sitting on the bench? No. She made friends. She had discipline. She learned sports. She had teamwork. She got every benefit you could get at the level she was playing. It was competitive, fun to watch. It was everything. There was nothing missing.

Sure there are a few people who would not get to be the star of high school on the team. Who cares? Just the one person who didn't get that, right? So yeah I won't say it's unfair. I will say it'll be different and some other people would get advantages and some others would not.

So we sort of fetishize sports like they're far more special than they are. They're not that special. You can have a recreational league that you played just for fun and you get all the benefits, all of them. In fact better benefits because you're more likely to play the entire game. And if you try to get in the competitive sport only a few people get to be starters.

All right, somebody says which is better for self-esteem? By far the recreational leagues. There are some people who would have better self-esteem by competing at the highest level on a women-only team. All the rest are better off playing on a team with people that are friends and the same level.

So the only reason I like this topic is because it triggers people into a hallucination of what I'm saying so that they can maintain their disagreement. But the thing that causes the blind spot is that they can't see there was never anything but a political reason that there were ever two different leagues, one for men and one for women. It never made sense from the beginning. It was simply something that people wanted so they got it. They had the power. They wanted it. They got it.

And I'm not even saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying that you know... well let me be more clear about that. There are things that make sense at a certain time and place. I think it was good and beneficial the women got their own leagues and then got to compete and get to be athletes and all that. So I think the way it is and the way it was designed to be totally positive. I also think you need to rethink things now and then. And we've reached a point where everybody understands that women can be athletes, right? It wasn't long ago that the idea of a woman playing a sport would just seem out of place. But we're not in that place. We're way beyond it now. Everybody understands there are male athletes, female athletes, transgender athletes. They're just athletes.

So once your society has moved past the question of hey can a woman play sport? Whoa I didn't know women could play sport. Whoa. Once you've moved past that into everybody play sports then you can design a system that doesn't have to solve a social problem. Having female-only sports solved a social problem that is solved. So you don't need to solve the problem that is already solved. We already understand women can play sports. Du