Harris-Walz / Dems

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Historically, it's because women being allowed to play sports at all is pretty recent, and the separation is down to the US's deep-seated history of sexism. Hell, a lot of the arguments about how "biological males" have advantages is really just more of that. Sexism and transphobia tend to go hand in hand.

 

[Pale Rider]

I keep waiting for the Academy Awards to lead by example and eliminate the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars so men and women can fight it out in one gender-neutral category.

But I won't hold my breath.

 

[NovaSaber]

I think there's a real discussion to be had about why so many sports are gender-segregated in the first place. If we simply broke things by non-gender specific physical attributes, we could solve a lot of these problems.

It's because sexist men wanted to make it impossible for a man to ever be beaten by a woman (which would happen regularly in many sports, and literally more often than the reverse in tennis).

 

[Pale Rider]

While we're at it, let's eliminate gender divisions in chess. I can't think of a single compelling reason for them to exist in a game that requires no physical prowess at all.