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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/showerthoughts

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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] 94 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 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 33 points 4 months ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Unpaid college athletes have entered the chat

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

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