With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 233 points –

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

Not to mention how many sports betting sites will go out of business 😱💸

Were they not taking bets on college games?

College betting is the wild wild west

Man when I was hooked on online betting I made an immense wager on the outcome of a soccer game I wasn't even able to watch. It was Omsk vs Tomsk, and I think I won it despite knowing nothing about soccer. Of course I was deeply in the red once I stopped such irresponsible behaviour

I think the harder question is how advertisers will convince underdeveloped schlubs that they call ball with Micheal Jordan if they just wear the right kind of shoes.

You mean like Oscar Pistorius shoes? I think it would be really creative and extremely entertaining to watch. Better than this shit they're blasting out to a disengaged populace these days

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