Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy

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Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy - Lemmy.zip

Lemmy

I’m of two minds about this:

First, let people compete in comparative tier skill events. We have different weight classes for boxing, why should other sports be any different?

Second, who fucking cares? Sports are literally just physical games which have become the victim of capitalism, and the Olympics added nationalism and implicit racial perspectives.

You will never see a Japanese woman winning the 100m sprint. Should we have another category for Asian sprinters? Maybe? But at some point you need to realise:

NONE OF THIS SHIT MATTERS.

Most of these athletes are doing drugs anyway lol.

Women’s sports exist because they can’t actually compete against men. The division is inherently and explicitly exclusionary. They were created to give 50% of the population a chance to compete on as fair of a stage as possible.
Women’s sports exist because men wouldn’t allow them to even play competitive sports, period. Women’s leagues were created as a conciliatory gesture from misogynists, not out of some sense chivalrous duty to uphold fairness and equality.
There isn’t men sports. There are sports, and women sports. The league men play in allow both genders.

Lol, no they don’t. Some do, but many don’t.

For games like golf, up until relatively recently, women weren’t even allowed to be club members.

Let’s not rewrite history.

That’s how it works today, but historically that has not been the case. Women even being allowed to play sports is less far removed from the present day than you might imagine.