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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)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not true. Some countries allow it on a national level, but many do not. I believe The Netherlands allows it, but only at lower competition levels.

I think FIFA forbids it entirely, but I'm not entirely sure.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago

You are right, it's not allowed in the FIFA World Cup. I didn't know.