Biological males are not better at basketball and tennis. Being exceptional at basketball seems to require being tall, and being exceptional at tennis seems to require a strong upper body, and having a greater representation of a gender will increase the likelihood that their outliers are in the set - and highly competitive sports are solely for outliers.
Being a male does not make you tall, it makes you somewhat more likely to be tall. But being a male doesn't change that I'd get sore neck talking up to female basketball players like Margo Dydek (218cm) and be absolutely destroyed in a match, or the fact the worlds tallest woman at 247cm would have made the average male look like a child.
Being male does not make you strong, but it gives you a slight advantage in growing strong (possibly including higher chance of experiencing a childhood that was more conductive to early muscle and bone growth). But being a male doesn't change that athletic and muscular sportswomen would consider my otherwise decent rather pathetic, and that no amount of dedicating my life to the cause would ever get me near the levels of a peak sportswoman.
Greater chance to have been born an outlier, not a benefit to the majority that weren't. Averages are misleading.
What is the overlap? That is, what percentage of women are equally as strong as some significant percentage of men? If it's 5%, that's much different than 25% or 50%.
I'm pretty sure it depends on which muscles we're talking about. Lower body is more equal than upper body, and I expect it's much more specific than that.
Being a male does not make you tall, it makes you somewhat more likely to be tall. But being a male doesn't change that I'd get sore neck talking up to female basketball players like Margo Dydek (218cm) and be absolutely destroyed in a match, or the fact the worlds tallest woman at 247cm would have made the average male look like a child.
Being male does not make you strong, but it gives you a slight advantage in growing strong (possibly including higher chance of experiencing a childhood that was more conductive to early muscle and bone growth). But being a male doesn't change that athletic and muscular sportswomen would consider my otherwise decent rather pathetic, and that no amount of dedicating my life to the cause would ever get me near the levels of a peak sportswoman.
Greater chance to have been born an outlier, not a benefit to the majority that weren't. Averages are misleading.