Imane Khelif is just the latest victim of idiotic transvestigators.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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The answer is that dividing sports by someone's sex is stupid. It seemed like an easy answer, and like all easy answers, is a shitty answer.
But, the solution to that -- not having any sex or gender based separation is that (with current Olympic sports) pretty much every event would be won by a man, and in almost every category women wouldn't even make the finals, so they wouldn't even show up on TV.
Just find another thing to differentiate on. Lung capacity. Muscle density. The things that actually matter.
Using sex just approximates those anyway.
Untrained anorexic division incoming
So... the "open" class would be all men, because they naturally have higher muscle density, and the "restricted" class would be half men because some men can meet that restricted standard?
Again, what's the point of having the women's events? I would have thought it was allowing women to win medals by not having to compete against men.
If we didn't divide sports by sex, we would have had several sports where women could have not competed on the highest level. As an answer, it has worked well, and keeps working well for 99% of the cases.
We shouldn't throw away working solutions because they fail 1%. Unless of course you have a solution that works for a higher percentage without compromising the previously solved 99%.
Just find another thing to differentiate on. Lung capacity. Muscle density. The things that actually matter.
Using sex just approximates those anyway.