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[–] 47 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

The sports stuff is not about fairness at all.

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  • [–] 39 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

    Tall people have an unfair biological advantage at basketball. We need to ban anyone over 5'10" from playing

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  • [–] 13 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    Can apply to any number of sports too. Look how fucking enormous the average linebacker is now.

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  • [–] 14 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    It applies to all sports. There are no sports where the competitors are equally skilled. And the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that the most unfair thing in competitive sports is that some people grow up with lots of wealth and privilege and other don’t and guess which of those two groups is more likely to go to the Olympics or become professional athletes?

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    Really depends on the sport. Many sports are seeing wealthier people getting into them like football. Famously it’s effected the Brazilian team for the worse. But then you have sports like Track and Field where a lot of people doing it are poorer. It was my sport and being good at it gave me opportunities I wouldn’t have had if i hadn’t been good at it.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Totally true but I still think trans people should still be able to play sports along with the gender they identify as.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    nuh uh that's unfair. we need FAIRNESS in sports. we're gonna grow entire teams of players in clone vats in identical conditions and ban all non clone athletes from ever doing a sport

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago*

    Maybe we can do something to handicap them to make it fair. Attach a series of increasingly heavy weights to them until their performance matches the cis athletes, make them play with bottles on their fingers like Luther in The Warriors, etc. There are lots of potential solutions but we have to make sure we don't lose sight of the main goal of putting a stop to unfair tall bias.

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