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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)

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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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[–] givesomefucks 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First England made football.

But they never set the rules, every English school had their own rules, so you went by "home teams rules".

The biggest difference was if you could.pick the ball up like in Rugby (the school). To clarify during scheduling, that became known as "rugby football".

It didn't make sense to call non hand football "football" so it became "soccer football".

Eventually they both dropped the redundant football. Then for some weird ass reason I still don't understand, England made soccer just football and then centuries later gets mad at anyone still using the name "soccer" that they invented for the sport.

[–] EnderMB 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, the English invented English, so they kinda called most things in that language what it's called...

The soccer/football argument is a little silly. It's been called football in the UK, and many parts of the world for the better part of a full century. Call it soccer if you want, many counties have their own translation for football, or they use a different word when they have their own version of football that they like.

[–] givesomefucks 1 points 6 months ago

No one is trying to make England call it soccer again...

But the places that use soccer are the places settled by the British when they still called it soccer.

So it doesn't make sense why the modern Brits who don't remember soccer are so mad when we call soccer football just soccer like we literally always have.