• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    It’s been demonstrated within equality movements that statistical biological strength corresponding to sex does not always correspond to actual performance.

    Depends heavily on the sport and the quality of coaching. Direct contact sports - football in particular - present real risks to the players when there’s a big disparity in size and strength.

    But then there’s an argument that middle/high school contact sports shouldn’t be allowed to begin with, precisely because of the risk of injury.

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      20 hours ago

      big disparity in size and strength

      So what you’re essentially saying is we should make decisions based on the individuals weight class rather than gender?

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        15 hours ago

        That would be the logical thing to do.

        Although, even then no public school should be sponsoring full contact sports, full stop.