I’ve never understood why bathrooms or sports are segregated by gender. Makes absolutely no sense to me and I’ll go to my dying day believing it’s nonsense.

  • radix@lemmy.world
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    I’m not aware of any top-tier professional team sports league that says “women can’t play on the men’s team.”

    Some individual sports are totally segregated, but there are no rules that say Premiere League* teams or NHL teams can’t have a woman. The fact that no “mens” teams do play women says quite a bit about the level of physical separation at that top level. Even if it happens one day, and I think it will, it will be single digits per year, max, for a long, long time.

    If women want to have a chance to play those sports at the top level, they need their own league.

    * Maybe a bad example, I’m not actually familiar with those rules, but sub in any of dozens of other pro leagues around the world that aren’t segregated by rule, but are by pragmatism.