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Sport categories should never be gender-based (men's and women's). It should be body-structure-based. Every sport should have an Open section for everyone and categories for separate body types. Gender is irrelevant in sports. Gender is only used today because of historical misunderstandings of what makes competition fair to the players. We know better. We should just get rid of gender-based categories and replace them with more specific and accurate body-type categories.

Kaizen 1y ago 💬 1

I think the intention behind it is good but I don’t see this succeeding. How accurate can body types be measured? Which variables are taken into account and which are not? And why? How easy is it to get false measurements or even game results? Besides, if the idea is to have better defined categories, where should we draw the line? Should we also measure intelligence, sport iq, anxiety, trauma, will power, etc all of which have an impact on performance? The more variables are introduced the more complicated it gets. And while historical categories are flawed, at least they’re simple and more in line with nature.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

That's up to the international body administering each sport and the athletes themselves. We have the tech to measure everything that matters for each sport, it's just a matter of getting it done.

For instance, we could have a swimming competition that is based on the wingspan of the athlete. Or a score that takes several factors into account.