IUF Gender Committee

General
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My position is that just because a man wears a dress doesn’t mean he should compete with females.

As stated above there are some rare cases that do require specific rules and discussions.

But i don’t agree with having a special board of people helping and advising for future rules simply because of feelings and how they want to be addressed.

Especially when on a lot of their bios they want to break the " system " and remove the whole concept of gender.

There are rules in sports to make competing fair for everyone.

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We all agree with that last part. That’s why the committee is being formed: to think about how to make the rules fair.
So, let’s let these volunteers think about this point and, in the meantime, we should resume our lives as we’ve done so far, don’t you think so? :slight_smile:

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Bien sur :ok_hand:

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I know some of the people involved with the committee, and your characterization of them is frankly insulting.

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Just a quick reminder to keep things civil and respectful :relieved:
(better to say it sooner than later)

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I’m not adding anything more to this conversation.
It’s pointless when people start getting offended on behalf of others.

Cheers

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Just a quick remark as past event organizer, since I saw this idea being thrown around: adding a third category (for example an open one) is close to impossible for big events (Unicon for instance).

It adds costs:

  • medals (don’t laugh, it IS a big budget element)
  • infrastructure time

And what’s mostly unrealistic is that it adds competition time. We would not be able to accomodate it (except if we mix categories during competition, and sort them out afterwards, but it is not always possible).

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