Gender equity and sports will never stop being a controversial issue. There's no doubt that men are superior to women in the vast majority of sports. Preferring women's sports aesthetically is a different issue. Commercially, sports are an entertainment product and women's sports exist as a variant on that product. In the overall market place, the big money is in male team sports. Will society ever change enough that female sports are more commercially successful? Will women become objectively better than men at more sports (in part because the the popular sports change)? Perhaps.
Clearly women's sports should have the rules that are best for the competitors, i.e. the women. It's stilly to suggest otherwise, and obviously this is normal in cases where is matters: hurdles, shot-put and outside tract eh size of basketballs and heights of hoops.
The real controversy is equal pay. It's clear in most cases that the male only version of a sport is more lucrative than the female version (e.g.: men's vs. women's pro tennis tours, NBA vs. WNBA, etc. etc.), So is it fair that women track athletes or tennis players get the same prize money at co-ed events? I say yes. If men want more money than the women, then organize and hold separate events. (Obviously this is the status of team leagues.) Once an event is mixed, men and women are in it together and events at the same level (i.e the best women and the best men) should be rewarded equally.
In tennis there's the extra question of 3 vs. 5 sets in grand slams, but this isn't a tennis board...