If you were to start your career as an athlete, you would have to do an standardised performance test and based on that and maybe previous performance in clubs tournaments etc. you would be given a score. This score would determine the tier in which you could start your career. From that on it would be up to you and your future performance to rise up to higher leagues or not.
There would have to be alterations depending on what sport you want to do. And of course the highest performing athletes would end up in one of the big teams like Manchester, Munic or Barca.
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Itās hard to create an all encompassing and totally fair system for everyone and everything but itās an idea to think about
I canāt see clubs completely changing their system to accommodate trans athletes. Thereās nothing in it for them, and nothing in it for me as a fan.
They already do their own scouting and have their own system of evaluations for players. Athletes canāt be just ranked by numbers on a paper. Thereās too much intangible involved or else there would not be scouts and everyone would just use numbers on a paper.
What youāre talking about is something we do for children to make teams. Coaches give kids a basic evaluation and give them a ranking. They put together teams with the desire to make most fair teams based on that. But the point here isnāt to win or to make money entertaining.
Sure that model is far from perfect. And there are certainly better ways to handle trans athletes.
I as a fan would honestly not care if my team was ma mixed team. An exceptionally good female player in my favourite football team? Why not if it works out.
Thereās nothing to prevent this as far as I know right now, at least in North American sports.
I think you under estimate the difference in male and female performance at the top. HS boys crushes US World Cup female teams. Thereās not going to be mix teams. Thereās nothing that prevents it now in North America. Teams have always tried to get 1 female but they all have failed.
In most European leagues there is a gender segregation. Iirc a female football player had to get written permission from the Association to play in a male team since there were no female teams in her town.
And what you describe is selection by performance. A MtF athlete could play in a top tier team, if her performance would be sufficient, right?
I think the reality right now is MtF is never going to be fair for womenās league. I donāt see any issues of them playing for the menās league.
At the end of the day. Thereās not a pool of trans athletes teams are missing out on. Itās not like the negro leagues. If there were, why would teams not sign them if they can help them win?
The same for women. If they could help a team win, any team would Try sign them.
Because in Europe, if youāre legally are a woman, youāre barred from male teams. So they have to stick to the female teams, which is unfair for the ones who have to compete against them.
That was my whole point I wanted to make.
Iād like to see a system where strong players can play together and weak players are sort of protected, regardless of the gender.
I didnāt know that was the case. If so, organisations like UEFA need to have their asses sued.
I know that in cricket the rules allow women to play. I know women can play in menās golf, because Iāve seen it happen. Similarly with snooker and darts. Which male sports ban women from competing, do you know?
Iām talking about Europe. Each country has itās own association there.
I.e. the american football association of germany just allowes players to play in mixed teams until the age of 15.
Like I said, Iām referring to the situation in Europe and especially in Germany. Other countries may have different rules for that.
The German tennis federation allowes mixed doubles in ranked matches. Ranked 1v1 is always played between the same gender afaik.
Iām using the word ability in the practical sense, i.e. what people are demonstrably capable of.
When it comes to assuming that people of a certain physiology (weight range, height range or what have you) will outperform others, ymmv depending on how much advantage is gained in that particular sport from physiology vs. training.
My daughter does taekwondo and I really donāt like the thought of her competing against a male, even someone the same weight as her. The natural physical advantages he was born with and developed through puberty would make it not only very unfair but also dangerous.
How is her competing against a male, with the similar physical ability? How is a boy with not so great physical ability competing against a male with the same weight as him but the natural/genetic physical advantages he was born with, that would make it not only very unfair but also dangerous.
