Trans women athletes rule

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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      4 days ago

      Weight, or muscle mass %, or reaction speed, or stamina, or whatever makes sense in the context of a specific competition. I’m neither a sports person nor an expert on human anatomy, but surely there are better ways to do it than what we have now.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 days ago

          that genuinely feels like it might be the best option, provided you can set up a reliable rule framework for it and avoid people just paying to be moved up or down the ranks

          i don’t think physical bracketing really makes sense for many things other than boxing, like there’s a lot of other factors going on in something like football…

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, weight/weight classes would be much fairer, either seperately or combined like they do in (some) bodybuilding now.

        But testosterone is a hell of a drug, and height and weight matter a lot, and weight classes are a choice. You could end up with far too many categories to fill.