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.

  • Welt@lazysoci.al
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    5 months ago

    Nobody’s making the obvious suggestion to chemically sterilise all athletes.

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      5 months ago

      The Castrati League has entered the stadium!

      I know… i know…castrato were young boys castrated to keep their singing voices high… . but words can be updated and language fluid… right?

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        5 months ago

        Castrato is just Italian for castrated or neutered, even used with animals albeit mostly used referring to males. Sometimes it’s even used figuratively. It would still work perfectly with your example, I think