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

  • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “Hey! Do you want to watch division 7 soccer? They have a woman on the team!”

    Hardly inspirational to girls everywhere. Whereas whenever I’ve caught the Canadian women’s soccer team, it’s usually at a pretty full arena with lots of girls teams there stoked to watch. I would never take that away from them.

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      10 months ago

      Why do you assume they’ll be in the 7th division? And do you assume it will be the case for all sports?

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        10 months ago

        Look at Olympic world records for men vs women where they have same conditions (run 100m, jump highest, throw thing far etc.) men have “better” times/scores.
        There are some sports where physique isn’t a factor like certain accuracy sports like target shooting where I can agree that there’s no reason to separate by gender though.