Comment on Trans women should be allowed in sports, but with strict limitations

• peto@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume you mean something like weight classes in combat sports? No one expects a welterweight to fight a heavyweight. And the existence of either class doesn’t reduce the achievements of anyone not in it.

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s use combat sports, how would you measure “approximate physical ability” ?

    If you just go by weight and don’t split the genders, biological women won’t stand a chance.

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    • peto@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know. Weight alone is likely a poor measure, and one we see exploited in combat sports to the harm and even death of competators. Working that specifically out is a question for sports scientists I think, rather than basing it on the feelings and biases of spectators.

      What I am talking about is the cultural acceptance of sectioned competition, and that it doesn’t reduce the achievements and glory of competators.

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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Basing the rules of your sports on the feelings and biases of spectators sounds wild.

        and is open for abuse, if most spectators want to disqualify a person because they don’t like them, they would be able to.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the “top” ability divisions would be mostly men.

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• AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you even begin to measure that?

  Hight, bone density, muscle weight etc plays such a massive role.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would leave it up to sports experts to measure it, which I am not one. It’s still a good idea, even if I don’t have the expertise to work out the details. I can see from other comments though that you are either a troll or very stupid, intentionally or unintentionally misunderstanding what we say to you. So this comment is not to you, it’s to all the lurkers and readers of comments that might otherwise be convinced by your arguments without a counterpoint.

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