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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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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[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I remember Serena Williams making a comment that the men can just hit harder and faster. So even a sport like tennis men just have an advantage.

Having watched some badass girls wrestle dudes and win it’s an up hill battle. Women are typically stronger then men at a young age like single digit age but one puberty hits it’s all off the table.

Now shooting(archery/firearms) I have seen girls out preform men and it’s a fair sport of accuracy. Also in motor sports women can be competitive there and also have an advantage of being smaller and lighter. Every 100 lbs is a 1/10th a second

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, there was an exhibition match between Serena and Venus and the 203rd ranked male player.

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