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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, nice to know that girl who beat me (in the same weight class) at wrestling was cuz her sexual organs weren't working properly.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We're talking about testosterone in blood not wrestling abilities. A 300lb woman will beat an 110lb man in wrestling. Doesn't mean she has higher T.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Amazing how one can dismiss another's personal experience by simply insisting a different scenario happened.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What personal experience am I dismissing? Please explain. I'm talking about human anatomy. The organ that produces testosterone are the testicles. Ovaries produce a token amount.

We are talking about T % in blood. Not personal experiences.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Bro, don't pretend you know what a woman's T levels are if you never met them.