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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You sure? I cannot find records adjusted to weight, but the male record is ~2:01h and the female 2:17h

Edit: Why is there a cake next to my name? It cannot be that I am on lemmy for a whole year already? Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you should have an egg next to your name :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

why an egg? Would it be to represent the disorientation of suddenly realizing you have been on Lemmy for a whole year? Like how an animal may be disorientated when seeing the light of the world for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Menemen is a delicious Turkish breakfast dish made of eggs, tomato, paprika and some other stuff. I think that was the allusion.