That's naive, Vitor.
Gender based sports is the primary filtering for body-structure. The male musculature is very different than female musculature.
Adding a mixed category can make sense in some sports but not in all.
That's naive, Vitor.
Gender based sports is the primary filtering for body-structure. The male musculature is very different than female musculature.
Adding a mixed category can make sense in some sports but not in all.
Yep, but this primary filtering is failing now because people are trying to match the historical way of doing with the new understandings of gender.
It's not a useful separator anymore.
The musculature is radically different between men and women. That is not trivial.
Female-only sports is necessary and will npt go away. Women cannot compete physically with men.
Gender is not an understanding.
We are either born XY or XX.
However, we might need a "cyborg" or "body modification" category in the distant future.
Many of the "new" sports like skate, shooting, surfing, etc don't have super strong biases by male/female. It's more about your eye sight, your state of mind, your steadyness, etc.
As we move forward, we will see more sports that are not based on the boring Strength/Stamina/Speed metrics.
We have men's and women's categories in shooting because men also beat women at those. Any sport that is physical will always be like that.
The only reason why we don't have male champions in things like artistic gymnastics is because of old fashioned ideas of sort of movements are manly and which are "more suited to the female nature".
Skeet shooting used to be mixed in the Olympics. Then a woman named Zhang Shan won it in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. After her win the International Shooting Union barred female athletes from competing against male athletes. The following Olympics split male and female skeet shooting, but there weren't enough women, so they didn't have any female skeet shooting, so Zhang Khan, the former Olympic champion, wasn't able to compete at all in 1996. The subsequent 2000 Olympics did see the women's skeet shooting.
I am aware of that story (I'm a member of an olympic shooting club), and for every one outlier you will find 10,000 cases in the normal distribution. Segregating by sex is the way that those 10,000 have a chance to at least compete.
Tf are you talking about?
SEX, not gender.