cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691
The International Olympic Committee will prohibit transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, starting at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The new policy, approved by the IOC’s executive committee Thursday, requires all athletes to undergo a genetic test to compete in women’s sporting events at the Olympics.
You’d think it’d be by weight or some other performance metric with women dominating at the lighter end of the spectrum.
They do exactly this in boxing, and probably other fighting sports.
The thing is, people tend to take up sports their body type is suited to, so short people don’t tend to play a sport where being tall is an advantage for long.
Short people don’t generally play basketball because nobody organizes leagues into separate categories by height, if you did they would
Sure bud.
Good one
There are smaller amd lighter men. They will be stronger and faster than equally sized or even slightly larger women of similar body sizes. The body simply grows differently.
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
What’s your source that its made up?
Because the same exact medical science that gives you HRT is supporting what he is saying.
Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3189615/
Nothing in this agrees with what you’re saying, you are either genuinely illiterate or a profoundly incompetent liar, embarassing either way
Then they have successfully found where they rank in a mixed field.
Height & weight would make more sense, yeah
People tend to take up sports they’re suited to though, and nobody wants to watch a bunch of shortasses doing a sport badly. At least not at the Olympics.
Being built suboptimally for a sport doesn’t mean that you’d be bad at the sport. The skills you develop would still be there and be equally impressive on anyone.
One of the things I find so fascinating about powerlifting is how the technique varies as you go across weight classes. It becomes a whole different game for people with different bodies. I’d love to see all the different ways that other sports can be played too.
Basing the rules of competetive sports on what the audience wants is fucking moronic, make the rules fair and logical and if the viewers don’t like it they can get off the couch and go play sports about it
You do understand that professional sport relies on sponsorship, which in turn relies on people watching?
People will watch it either way, sponsors will pay either way, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about
You’re making a lot of outlandish claims with no proof bud.
There’s a lot of competition for watch time these days.
Lol pure projection, try harder