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 I think you fail to appreciate how much more dangerous it would be for any female to play sports at all. If highschool males can beat professional females in soccer, the idea that highschool females would even want to compete & risk getting slide tackled is kinda ridiculous. I was once bicycle kicked in the face when diving to head the ball. If I was almost half my weight & female it would have probably been way worse, might have broken my neck. And what you are describing sounds like you don't want anyone to keep score either... "just let people play because they love it." It sounds like you live in some sort of fantasy world. There is nothing wrong with competition (which is kinda the point) or with enjoying the competition so long as it is SANE & HEALTHY & generally fair.

Segregating out the trans faggots & giving them their own league would make more sense. But then they wouldn't have anyone but each other to try to take advantage of & there'd be no established system to benefit from so they almost certainly wouldn't want that. Maybe put them in with the special olympics people. Competing against other retarded men actually seems like the correct placement. 
 I disagree, on all accounts.  I absolutely want score to be kept and I think competition is vital to self improvement.  

In the cases of men being stronger, this should be resolved by a system of meritocracy.  Only weak AF men would be fighting women.  Jui Jitsu people roll co-ed all the time. I've had my ass kicked by women.  

You again are lumping all women and men into two broad categories that I don't think are as clear as you are implying.  There are weak and small men out there and there are strong massive women who might be being held back from their ultimate potential by being allowed to only play against other females.

The ultimate minority is the individual.   
 I think we should just stick to what has worked for a really long time & not let the mentally deranged reorganize everything in society for no good reason. 
 Practically I agree, but it is a cop out answer.  Your response sounds like everyone I tell about Bitcoin.  Why not just keep the system we have, it's worked well so far. 

It would be practically difficult to implement what I'm describing, but I don't think that makes it fundamentally the wrong idea.  Lots of great ideas are going to be difficult to implement......but very worth it(Bitcoin, private roads, minarchy in general etc.)

Well someday we'll get into this in person😂.  Thanks for the rousing debate.  I'll agree to disagree.  

 
 The monetary system is stealing from people & destroying society, dividing sports into men & women's divisions protects people & expands participation. I don't think the comparison makes any sense. 
 segregating criminals away from good people is the same principle

good boundaries are vital for growth, and the most important ones are very abstract in nature 
 💯, but criminals are segregated by decisions they made not by their natural composition. 
 habits are nearly as solid as bones, in the decadent 
 What? 
 english, do you speak it? 
 Yeah maybe not the best comparison