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School sports are typically sex-segregated, and in America some of them have even come to be seen as either traditionally for boys or traditionally for girls: Think football, wrestling, field hockey, volleyball. However, its becoming more common for these lines to blur, especially as Gen Zers are more likely than members of previous generations to reject a strict gender binary altogether. Maintaining this binary in youth sports reinforces the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive settinga notion thats been challenged by scientists for years.

Decades of research have shown that sex is far more complex than we may think. And though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still dont know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential. Science is increasingly showing how sex is dynamic; it has multiple aspects and also shifts; for example, social experiences can actually change levels of sex-related hormones like testosterone in our bodies in a second-to-second and month-to-month way! Sari van Anders, the research chair in social neuroendocrinology at Queens University, in Ontario, told me by email.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/09/sports-gender-sex-segregation-coed/671460/

What say you, CE? Should sports be segregated by sex? Or is there a better way?