Should we stop splitting sports by gender and just let everybody compete together? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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No more men's and women's league, no more "gender eligibility" requirements, a common dresscode, same standards and rules for all.

Edit: since it looks like people missing the word let: the suggestion isn't to force desegregation. It's to allow it or even make it the default. Someone else made a good suggestion: segregate by attributes specific to the sport. In boxing it's weight class, in basketball it could be height, in biking it could even be doped and non doped. Sex and gender need not be the very first thing to segregate by.

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[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Even in "sports" like chess, darts and pool virtually every single world class player is a male. It's not just about strenght.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I'd really love sources on that since I don't follow those sports. Are they mixed?

But in chess, there are a definitely female grand masters (whatever that means). Pool had the famous "black widow" player. Who even plays darts? I only know of one fat Brit who has dominated against other men. No idea if women even play.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

You can look up the leaderboards of any of the mentioned sports. It's not that there's not any women in there but it's still virtually all male.

Then there are plenty of examples of top level female athletes losing to males nobody has never even heard of.

Venus and Serena Williams lost to 203rd ranked male tennis player

FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women's National Team in a scrimmage

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