Female athletes shouldn't be be able compete against men

My opponent has not specified whether the scope of the motion includes only professional teams, or if it also includes boys and girls playing sports together at a young age. I have made the executive decision to include young athletes in my argument. Women and men should compete against one another on equal terms on sports arenas. The reasons for giving up sexual discrimination within sports, and for allowing individuals of both sexes to compete with each other are simple. In sports it is crucial that the best person wins. If a female athlete can perform better than a male athlete, this female athlete should be allowed to compete with, and beat, the male athlete. If she cannot beat a certain male athlete, so be it. If the competition is fair, she should be able to face the fact that he is more talented. It is really as simple as that. I believe that this debate has two key aspects that I will do my best to cover. Firstly, can women compete against men in a athletic competitions? Secondly, is banning women from male events a form of discrimination? These points go hand in hand, and I will take them both on together. I would first like to point out that the entire basis of not allowing them to play, and most likely the entire basis of my opponent's upcoming argument, is that women are not as physically gifted as men. This is clear when you consider that the controversy surrounding this issue is only stirred when a female athlete attempts to compete in a male event. Aside from issues that relate to transgender athletes, which are irrelevant to this debate, I can not research or recall the event of a male athlete attempting to play in a female competition. All this is because of the patriarchal belief that men are better than women. This is why the motion of this very debate was written in a way that denigrates women, not even assuming that a male athlete would EVER want to play for the girls team. It is why the ONLY reason that women leagues exist in the first place, created either by a man to silence their complaint, or by a woman to give them their opportunity. Aside from the blatant sexism that makes up the argument, I disagree with the premise as it relates to many sporting events. A great many sports require skill at the game in order to be a high-achiever, with physical prowess being merely gravy, so to speak. For every sport, there is a woman with skill and a woman without, a man with skill and a man without. If male athletes were able to set aside their sexism, they may realize that just as there is somewhere a man who is faster than them, stronger than them, taller than them, or more skilled than them, there is also somewhere a woman. Essentially, men are not easily able to say they are better than all men, but through their ego they are easily able to say that they are better than all women. I admit that this argument is easier when arguing that Michael Jordan would defeat Sheryl Swoopes in a game of street ball, but Michael Jordan is not the average man. Just as there are men who excel at sports and men who do not, the same is true for women. Yet, men who do NOT excel are allowed to play with men who DO, and women who DO excel are not. In schools across the world, there are women who can defeat many if not most or all of their male classmates . Why not allow these women to play in a league where they will be given the greater challenge? If they are not the best, then they are not the best, just as male who is not athletic will not be the best. If the team is a competitive roster, then tryouts that are open to all genders will certainly sort out who is better than who. And if that isn't enough, then I have to ask: What are men so afraid of?