No more men’s and women’s league, no more “gender eligibility” requirements, a common dresscode, same standards and rules for all.

Edit: since it looks like people missing the word let: the suggestion isn’t to force desegregation. It’s to allow it or even make it the default. Someone else made a good suggestion: segregate by attributes specific to the sport. In boxing it’s weight class, in basketball it could be height, in biking it could even be doped and non doped. Sex and gender need not be the very first thing to segregate by.

  • Psiczar@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    No, because the women would be at an unfair physical disadvantage in most sports.

    I watched the speed rock climbing (sorry, don’t know the official name) during the Olympics. The fastest woman was amazing, she flew up the wall in about 6.75 seconds, and beat her nearest competitor by over a second to win the gold. The fastest man was nearly 2 seconds faster again with his competitors not far behind. If the women competed with the men, the female gold medal winner wouldn’t even be on the podium.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      You say that but women’s tennis didn’t exist until a woman beat all the men and won a tournament.

      • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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        2 months ago

        He did say “in most sports”, not all. More specifically, sports where physical strength is an advantage (ie, weight lifting, rock climbing, football, soccer, wrestling, etc).

        Women and men would be equal in sports like billiards, ping pong, badminton, gymnastics, ice skate, and even tennis.

        • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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          2 months ago

          and even tennis.

          Tennis?! Not even Serena Williams believes that:

          “Andy Murray has been joking about myself and him playing a match. I’m like, ‘Seriously? Are you kidding me?’ Men’s tennis and women’s tennis are two completely different sports,” Serena Williams said. “If I were to play him, I’d lose 6-0, 6-0 within 10 minutes. Men are a lot faster, they serve and hit harder. It’s a different game.”