Trans women athletes rule
This community is not a place to debate the participation of trans women in sports.
Here’s a digestible video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0
Long story short the entire subject is being pushed by right wing lobby organizations to get people riled up about trans people and secure votes for the right. That’s it. Do not fall for their bullshit.
Transfemmes have every right to participate in sports that match their gender.
Sports divisions kinda need to be overhauled anyway. Would be nice to have it based on the actual physical factors that affect a human’s performance in a specific sport, instead of just 2 groups for everything with blurry definitions and a massive overlap in terms of said performance.
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Weight, or muscle mass %, or reaction speed, or stamina, or whatever makes sense in the context of a specific competition. I’m neither a sports person nor an expert on human anatomy, but surely there are better ways to do it than what we have now.
sports MMR
that genuinely feels like it might be the best option, provided you can set up a reliable rule framework for it and avoid people just paying to be moved up or down the ranks
i don’t think physical bracketing really makes sense for many things other than boxing, like there’s a lot of other factors going on in something like football…
TBF, American Football is definitely the kind of sport where physical bracketing would make sense.
Or something analogous depending on the thing. Weight classes in shooting or long jump seems off.
More weight obviously means that you can push the bullet faster
Did not consider, am not a sports doer.
Paralympics has such a system kinda. We could extend that system to the point where it includes people nowadays forced into “Olympic Games” or what ever they are called
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What do you mean? There are loads of transphobes literally arguing that transfem athletes are transitioning so they can compete in women’s categories because they’re not good enough in men’s categories.
They said this about Lia Thomas endlessly. They’re still saying this about her.
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