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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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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm still a fan of just removing all the rules around drugs and bodies. Let's see what 21st century science can do!

[–] noobnarski@feddit.de 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It would be a kinda fun league to watch, but I dont want to hear about athletes dying because they took obscene amounts of steroids to be the best.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I want to say that because understanding of steroids and sports medicine they could be done in a way to prevent that for many sports. But o also know that would require rigorously enforced regulation which athletes would then try to game, which would probably lead to more deaths on the field.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that. You wanna go nuts on steroids then shoot up meth and cocaine before a race, go ahead. We'll put defibrillators every 10m around the track. Catch that dragon, sports person.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'd pay to see a feild full of tweakers, put a massive rock on one of those dog race things place random weapons around the track

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

We already have racers dying regularly in Isle of Man TT. Blood sports never died, they evolved. Why not sprinkle some steroids over it.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I imagine it would be like The Fast and The Furious where he presses the nitrous button till the screws/bolts all come out and the car falls apart very quickly.