With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system? - eviltoast

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.

  • halvar@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Shouldn’t a woman and a man with the same height, weight, and body-muscle percentage be basically identical in terms of athleticism or am I wrong?

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          5 months ago

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      5 months ago

      Skeletal structure and muscle connection make a huge difference in leverage and speed.

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      To add to other replies I also think that its much harder for women to develop muscles. (Just what I think I observed, coukd be wrong)

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        “Explosive upper body strength” specifically. Men have wider shoulders and more chest/back/shoulder muscles.

        Women have to work twice as hard for half the results.