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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)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Just make an "open class" where any identification, body mods, and performance enhancing drugs are unregulated. The best athletes that science can create.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It sounds fun at first but imagine the amount of heart attacks and other horrible Mengele level fuckups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

#mengeledidnothingwrong

wait, that's the right hashtag isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

put a \ in front of the # to 'escape' out the # so it isn't treated like a #heading font

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, on the other hand, medicine learned a lot... /s

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