TRANSGENDERRemember the injured female highschool volleyball player? The man who caused the injury is using it to promote himself.

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[–]Datachost 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

On the topic of volleyball, the one time I can remember playing mixed post puberty was playing volleyball during PE. There were uneven teams, so our all boy team got put up against a team of girls for a round. I wasn't even good at volleyball and I was smashing aces in. We barely got any practice out of it, because any time it was our serve there was a solid chance it would either be an ace or they'd wildly redirect our serve.

[–]Haylstorm 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah there's just such a difference it's unviable if you want to have actual fair competition, not to mention the safety aspect. Men, but especially teenagers often don't know their own strength so that feels like the worst time to let them do mixed sport. There's def a realisation that takes place in most men/teens that do do mixed sports that they need to be 'gentle' or someone gets injured. Which obviously isn't great for them either when they want to actually play a competitive game.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My friend used to play Korfball which is a sport designed to be mixed. Can’t help but think that there was a reason they strictly enforced gender quotas on teams and participation rules meant every player has to hold the ball before a goal was scored.

[–]Datachost 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Quidditch is supposed to, but since their idea of a woman is "whoever identifies as one" (no gatekeeping at all) it ends up with full men's teams playing against mixed teams. Quidditch also has a massive concussion problem, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look at the mess this study into Quidditch injuries is because they refused to be strict with sex definition. They allowed self-reporting of sex, and looking at the mean heights and weight you can instantly see that there’s significant lying going on (the mean height for women is 5’7” in the study but 5’4” in real life…me thinks some dudes slipped in, the mean height for men was 5’10” so I’m guessing that there no or very few transmen) , and it’s hilarious that the mean height for the “prefer not to say” category is both taller and heavier than either male or female.

This is the quality of evidence that the “men and women can play contacts sports safely together” crowd is putting out.

Contrary to the above study women do indeed suffer more concussions in Quidditch than men and should probably think about segregating play by sex.