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No more men's and women's league, no more "gender eligibility" requirements, a common dresscode, same standards and rules for all.

Edit: since it looks like people missing the word let: the suggestion isn't to force desegregation. It's to allow it or even make it the default. Someone else made a good suggestion: segregate by attributes specific to the sport. In boxing it's weight class, in basketball it could be height, in biking it could even be doped and non doped. Sex and gender need not be the very first thing to segregate by.

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[โ€“] Jarix 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Im gonna guess.

Sport is a spectacle. At the highest levels of any given sport(usually)

Women, if they cannot compete with men, will simply not exist in the highest levels of that sport.

If women cannot be part of the highest levels of that sport, the sport cant make enough money to create leagues that can convince enough women to put significant amount of systems in place to train and produce the best women capable of playing that sport.

Until we stop caring about only letting/finding/supporting/producing the best of the best, its an incredibly bad idea to ignore the many sport specific disadvantage biology plays in competition

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Again, like many others missed, the proposal isn't "NO MORE SEGREGATION!". It's to let people compete against each other regardless of sex. I'd prefer it as a default, but it doesn't preclude voluntary segregation.

Until we stop caring about only letting/finding/supporting/producing the best of the best, its an incredibly bad idea to ignore the many sport specific disadvantage biology plays in competition

And with this too, I disagree. If you've done sports, you'll know the feeling of thinking you're the best and then meeting a stronger opponent. For some, it will be demoralising, but for others it's a stimulus. It also lets you learn more about the sport, what is possible, and in certain sports also develop techniques and tactics against opponents with greater values in different attributes.

Evolution happens faster under pressure and competing against better opponents is the best pressure there is. That's how you get the best of the best. You get out of your safe zone.

Also, again for you too, the suggestion is not "no more segregation ever"! You can read my edit.