PrideSource.com – by Dan Woog
If Jesse Ream has her way, terms like “men’s sports” and “women’s hoops” will one day seem as archaic as leather football helmets and basketball bloomers do now. Everyone who plays sports is an athlete, Ream says; separating them arbitrarily by gender is unfair and close-minded.
Instead, Ream says, athletes in all sports should compete against those with similar physical dispositions. Small-framed, less muscular people should play others who look like them; so should bigger, brawnier folks. For millennia, “male” and “female” have been the defining criteria. Ream believes that in the 21st century, those distinctions no longer apply.