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.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    why does it matter?

    Should we stop splitting sports by gender?

    It’s inherently boring to watch sports competitions between unequally capable people, and there is a natural difference in that that can be clearly attributed to gender.

    I admire your thought of equality but we need to talk about the differences in physique in genders as well if we wanna discuss this.

    Don’t dismiss this claim, scientifically debunk it or share why not and how you come to this conclusion.

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      14 days ago

      Of course people are differently capable, that why we have divisions, leagues, weight classes, and so on, even in the same sex. Why would that change when they all compete together?

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        “Hey! Do you want to watch division 7 soccer? They have a woman on the team!”

        Hardly inspirational to girls everywhere. Whereas whenever I’ve caught the Canadian women’s soccer team, it’s usually at a pretty full arena with lots of girls teams there stoked to watch. I would never take that away from them.

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          13 days ago

          Why do you assume they’ll be in the 7th division? And do you assume it will be the case for all sports?

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      No, it’s not attributed to gender. It is attributed to sex. Sorry to be pedantic but we live in a world where that distinction is very important for education purposes.