Pandantic [they/them]Jun 14, 2024

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

https://midwest.social/post/13401301

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

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.

Show threadGamers_MateJun 14, 2024
I could see this working better than the current system and would undermine bigots argument about an unfair advantage. Though there are people that think being transgender gives people an advantage in chess somehow.
Show threadmexicancartelJun 15, 2024
Your last sentence made me search up women’s chess… and it exists! That sound like a bold assumption or assertion that women are dumber in chess… Like what? I don’t know why chess has to be gender divided. Maybe it exist to increase representation of women in it but the idea seems stupid. Maybe they have to split it for trans too if its already divided for women.
Show threadI'll be on [email protected]Jun 15, 2024
theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-gender-imbal…
What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?

Stereotype threat is where minorities underperform solely because they’re aware of a stereotype that people of their group do worse.

The Conversation
Show threadmexicancartel
It sounds so but the gap is still too large to say it. The “stereotype threat” shown here should not really affect every one of theese female players. For most other feilds, women can easily take upto 30-40% participation
Jun 15, 2024 at 6:04pmWeb