Viking_Hippie5d ago

LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66132704

LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans athletes from women's sports - Divisions by zero

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66087691 [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.

Show threadPagPag5d ago
Is this even controversial? There’s a reason men and women sports were separated to begin with.
Show threadAmnesigenic5d ago
The reasons we separate sports by gender are and have always been stupid
Show threadgreyscale
You’d think it’d be by weight or some other performance metric with women dominating at the lighter end of the spectrum.
Mar 28 at 1:25pmWeb
Show threadAmnesigenic5d ago
Height & weight would make more sense, yeah
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
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.
Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
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
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
You do understand that professional sport relies on sponsorship, which in turn relies on people watching?
Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
People will watch it either way, sponsors will pay either way, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago

You’re making a lot of outlandish claims with no proof bud.

There’s a lot of competition for watch time these days.

Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
Lol pure projection, try harder
Show threadZexks5d ago
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.
Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
Show threadSkankhunt4204d ago

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: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3189615/

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Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
Nothing in this agrees with what you’re saying, you are either genuinely illiterate or a profoundly incompetent liar, embarassing either way
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago

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.

Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
Short people don’t generally play basketball because nobody organizes leagues into separate categories by height, if you did they would
Show threadIlovethebomb4d ago
Sure bud.
Show threadAmnesigenic4d ago
Good one