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 threadgreyscale5d ago
You’d think it’d be by weight or some other performance metric with women dominating at the lighter end of the spectrum.
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 threadAmnesigenic
People will watch it either way, sponsors will pay either way, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about
Mar 29 at 7:08amWeb
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