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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)
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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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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Hot take: Sports are not that important, and it's not the end of the world if someone in the other team is "physically better" than you.

Sports should be just played for fun and for making exercise, not as a profession. And the whole sports industry should be taken down all together. Make all sports amateur and just for the fun of it and suddenly it really doesn't mather who is on your team or in the other team.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But how will all those people survive with out their million dollar salaries????

[–] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention how many sports betting sites will go out of business 😱💸

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Were they not taking bets on college games?

[–] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

College betting is the wild wild west

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 0 points 3 months ago

Man when I was hooked on online betting I made an immense wager on the outcome of a soccer game I wasn't even able to watch. It was Omsk vs Tomsk, and I think I won it despite knowing nothing about soccer. Of course I was deeply in the red once I stopped such irresponsible behaviour

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the harder question is how advertisers will convince underdeveloped schlubs that they call ball with Micheal Jordan if they just wear the right kind of shoes.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You mean like Oscar Pistorius shoes? I think it would be really creative and extremely entertaining to watch. Better than this shit they're blasting out to a disengaged populace these days

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are crazy if you believe all olympics athletes are millionaires.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That I don't. But look up wages for the American football and basketball players and coaches.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Unpaid college athletes have entered the chat

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The salary of their coaches alone could probably pay the whole team a decent wage.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 3 months ago

What convinces you of that?

[–] vierbl00m@feddit.de 9 points 3 months ago

Most sport is played by amateurs and for fun. It is still no fun to play against someone who is way stronger/weaker than you, of course!