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With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system? (midwest.social)
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Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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[-] Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Oh the pride and joy I will experience when I finally get to be champion in the "Pretty shit" skill level running competition! Especially if I manage to defeat my handicapped neighbor, that prick keeps boasting about how he's been training hard every day for the past 10 years! I'm not sure you understand what competitive sports are about ...

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

We already basically do this with things like the differentiation between Varsity and JV. Not sure why this is such an offensive concept to some of you (just kidding, I’m pretty sure I understand exactly why y’all are offended). If competition is what is great about sports, then excluding some competitive participants because of arbitrary physiological characteristics actively diminishes the sport. But perhaps competition isn’t actually what some of you think is great about sports. I suspect that what some of you actually value about sports is to experience a kind of masterbatory high of seeing someone you can identify with, in shallow ways, achieving things that you yourself cannot.

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