From Sport New Zealand.
Where to start?
1. They recognise regulation of age and weight is appropriate to prevent ‘physical mismatch’. Not sex though. Many intuitively understand weight cats as necessary. Sex is a bigger statistical predictor of ‘physical mismatch’ than weight.
Where to start?
1. They recognise regulation of age and weight is appropriate to prevent ‘physical mismatch’. Not sex though. Many intuitively understand weight cats as necessary. Sex is a bigger statistical predictor of ‘physical mismatch’ than weight.
By ‘statistical predictor’, I mean this:
If someone presented you with the entire membership of a weightlifting federation and asked you to pick the strongest lifter, the first cut you make will be sex.
Only then should you start looking at weight.
If someone presented you with the entire membership of a weightlifting federation and asked you to pick the strongest lifter, the first cut you make will be sex.
Only then should you start looking at weight.
2. There may be physical mismatches in basketball, sure. But in the NBA, where females qualify, they all seem to be mismatched males. 🤔
If a 5’3’’ male can be an NBA superstar, why do we not see 5’3’’ females play? There’s plenty of them, it’s not like the pool is small.
If a 5’3’’ male can be an NBA superstar, why do we not see 5’3’’ females play? There’s plenty of them, it’s not like the pool is small.
3. ‘Everyone’s different’ is not a nuance applied to the sex categories, it’s a fundamental remapping of *what categories are for*. Including those of age and weight.
4. I agree that the gender identity of a player presents no inherent risk. Why would it? By what mechanism?
But we are talking about bodies and biology, not neuropsychology or sociology etc.
But we are talking about bodies and biology, not neuropsychology or sociology etc.
The start line doesn’t care about your identity.
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