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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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[-] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Were they not taking bets on college games?

[-] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

College betting is the wild wild west

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 weeks 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

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