Former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Meisha Tate has made it abundantly clear that she believes men should not compete in women’s sports.
Speaking with Esports Insider, Tate exposed and refuted a core belief that men in women’s sports have. Many of these men don’t win as much as they would like against other males, so they pretend to be females just to win titles.
Tate said that’s thoroughly unacceptable.
"I do not support men, in any form, competing in female sports. I just don’t think that it’s fair. I don’t think that it’s right," Tate said. "Sports are not inclusive by their nature…if you’re not good enough, you just don’t make it, and that’s a hard lesson to learn, but it’s a valuable one."
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Tate also noted that because women have different hormone cycles than men, it can be harder for women to cut weight to fight in certain classes. In other words, the biological differences between the two sexes play a role in making that unfair.
"I think the fact that women even have to deal with cycles and all the hormone changes and everything like that, is just something that’s a very complicated part of the process for females that we have to add, especially when it comes to weight cutting," she said. "I just don’t think that it’s proven that it can be 100% equal. And so, with that being said, I don’t support it."
Tate concluded that if men want to play with women, they need to find a co-ed league or stop trying to move into girls’ space.
"I’m not for biological males competing in female sports. I think that there’s great potential that it’s unsafe, especially in contact sports. And sports are not meant to include everybody. I mean, if you want to do a sport that includes everybody, then try pickleball. That’s fine."
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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