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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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 22 points 4 months ago (9 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!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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

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