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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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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

or why don't we just keep everything as is because it's not a big fucking deal despite what bigots say

if you really wanted to "fix" or "save" womens sport, just start by fucking paying them the same as men and giving women's sport the same attention on tv

[-] Flanhare@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You know how the market economy works?

[-] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

You are the market economy.

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