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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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[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

But how will all those people survive with out their million dollar salaries????

[-] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago

Not to mention how many sports betting sites will go out of business 😱💸

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Were they not taking bets on college games?

[-] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

College betting is the wild wild west

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 0 points 5 months ago

Man when I was hooked on online betting I made an immense wager on the outcome of a soccer game I wasn't even able to watch. It was Omsk vs Tomsk, and I think I won it despite knowing nothing about soccer. Of course I was deeply in the red once I stopped such irresponsible behaviour

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I think the harder question is how advertisers will convince underdeveloped schlubs that they call ball with Micheal Jordan if they just wear the right kind of shoes.

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You mean like Oscar Pistorius shoes? I think it would be really creative and extremely entertaining to watch. Better than this shit they're blasting out to a disengaged populace these days

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 5 months ago

You are crazy if you believe all olympics athletes are millionaires.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That I don't. But look up wages for the American football and basketball players and coaches.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unpaid college athletes have entered the chat

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The salary of their coaches alone could probably pay the whole team a decent wage.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago

What convinces you of that?

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