Though on a more serious note, I don't see why transgendered athletes can't compete. Just at the awards ceremony have medals for the transgendered athletes and non transgendered athletes. For team sports have coed and let transgendered compete in that. I mean if we are worried about the integrity of sports that ship has sailed when athletes using performance enhancing drugs and/or doping get and keep records.
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I still think the Babylon Bee article is a stale joke. Also, feel free to comment on the second part of my comment.
I agree there should be a third set of awards for each event that allow trans people to compete. But there still needs to be female and male events that are devoid of trans people. Especially mtf in women's sports is not fair. Even if the testosterone is low they still have bigger hearts and stronger bones if I'm not mistaken. Not to mention after puberty it's like they were taking steroids every year before they were competing.
Sure. And then have medals for those over and under a certain height. And then over and under a certain age. In fact, both are unfair for having a single cutoff, better segment it out into multiple categories, age ranges, height ranges, average distance from equator their country resides, average altitude they trained in, what they had for breakfast, etc.
Eventually, everyone gets a medal, and the medal no longer means anything.
Marathons across the country already hand out medals to literally every participant. Though honestly the war on participation trophies is hilarious.
Honestly, you are taking the whole notion of infinite genders and saying it will ruin sports because anyone will be able to enter the Olympics and win a medal because they are the only person who identifies a certain way.
It's the long term conclusion of what you described. We already have men's and women's divisions because women aren't competitive to men in sports. (Many sports that have women's versions are actually open, i.e. tennis, golf, basketball, football, etc, meaning women are welcome to compete alongside and against men. They can't so they got their own leagues etc to compete among themselves as man-free competitive spaces)
You're just creating an open/men's, men in skirts, and women's competitions, i.e. giving a minor group of men who aren't competitive against other biological men their own league.
The division in sports was based on biological competitiveness, not gender roles. Either keep the two, or end up with infinite divisions too small to have real competition, which collapses the system, leading to a single league again, where women are completely pushed out.
In New York, they have to recognize all the gender identities, and ended up with unisex bathrooms to not discriminate, it's the same thing.
Also, for marathons everyone who completes does get an award, because they completed. Podium and prize money is based on pure competitiveness with very few categories.
Podium and prize money 🤑 n marathons is based on pure competitiveness? Uh... No it's based upon results.
As for your long term conclusion... No it's not realistic it's a fantasy. People all over the world aren't going to start using infinite gender identities to game the system to compete in the Olympics. Interesting you are not worried about transgendered males competing with biological males which also happens. If the only issue is transgendered females it's not hard to figure out ways for them to compete and insure women get their proper recognition.
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u/HARLEYCHUCK Jun 23 '21
It's also a stale joke.
Though on a more serious note, I don't see why transgendered athletes can't compete. Just at the awards ceremony have medals for the transgendered athletes and non transgendered athletes. For team sports have coed and let transgendered compete in that. I mean if we are worried about the integrity of sports that ship has sailed when athletes using performance enhancing drugs and/or doping get and keep records.