• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I think the part people don’t realize is that like a lot of top athletes just have oddities - higher muscle building hormones, circulatory systems that work better under stress, more cellular receptors for triggering muscle building etc. And at the same time sex hormones aren’t the only chemicals that affect these things so there’s also a plethora of performance enhancing drugs cascading out of labs at the same time which is genuinely pumping out hulked up muscle freaks (see Liver King’s 12k steroid shots per month scandal)

    At some point it would just make more sense to just classify sports by weight and build and remove the genital inspection element.

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      8 days ago

      Yes, they do this already within gendered sports (different weights to compete) so just remove the gender side of it.