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tempposter··on I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
You are talking about "safe spaces". A woman's ability to rock climb better than a you doesn't make her much safer. If you were in a locker room with a woman, even if she was better at rock climbing, chances are, if you attempted to physically assault her, she would easily be overpowered.
tempposter··on I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
Posting this from an alt because I've almost gotten in trouble for mentioning this. But the overlap is not that big:

> Hand-grip strength has been identified as one limiting factor for manual lifting and carrying loads. To obtain epidemiologically relevant hand-grip strength data for pre-employment screening, we determined maximal isometric hand-grip strength in 1,654 healthy men and 533 healthy women aged 20-25 years. Moreover, to assess the potential margins for improvement in hand-grip strength of women by training, we studied 60 highly trained elite female athletes from sports known to require high hand-grip forces (judo, handball)

> 90% of females produced less force than 95% of males. Though female athletes were significantly stronger (444 N) than their untrained female counterparts, this value corresponded to only the 25th percentile of the male subjects.

> The results of female national elite athletes even indicate that the strength level attainable by extremely high training will rarely surpass the 50th percentile of untrained or not specifically trained men.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17186303/