Should we stop splitting sports by gender and just let everybody compete together?

posted 2 months ago

No more men’s and women’s league, no more “gender eligibility” requirements, a common dresscode, same standards and rules for all.

Edit: since it looks like people missing the word let: the suggestion isn’t to force desegregation. It’s to allow it or even make it the default. Someone else made a good suggestion: segregate by attributes specific to the sport. In boxing it’s weight class, in basketball it could be height, in biking it could even be doped and non doped. Sex and gender need not be the very first thing to segregate by.

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ramsgrl909@lemmy.world

7 points

2 months ago

This post was clearly not made by a woman

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atro_city@fedia.ioOP

-7 points

2 months ago

Why? You think women are incapable of posing such questions?

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ramsgrl909@lemmy.world

7 points

2 months ago

Even Serena Williams said she couldn’t compete against a similarly ranked man. If you want to combine, women would just not be able to compete at that level

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Statfish@lemmy.world

4 points

2 months ago

Nope, but as with so many discussions of this nature, this question misses the nuance of why women’s sports exist.

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