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.

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I feel like some function of actual measurements of say hormone levels over a given training period and lifetime would be a better classification systen over pure sex class system.

Most of the time it would result in the same divisions tbh, but outliers would be better accommodated and we get the added bonus of further breaking down gender roles.

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Paralympic rugby has mixed teams with men and women.

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No, that is stupid.

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What a nonstupid answer. I congratulate you on being so articulate.

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Many sports are like that already. The NFL and NBA are not segregated by gender/sex, anyone can play. The WNBA exists and is supplemented by the NBA because women never make it through the tryouts/cuts. Same goes for the NFL, but they didn’t make a WNFL.

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That would just be men’s sports, which in fairness is all most people seem to care about anyway…

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Not every sport. Dressage is already a sport where there is just one category. Synchronous swimming is also one, but only women competed this year.

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Okay so two obscure sports that require a ton of money to participate in?

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