*All sports are exclusionary*

Under-18 soccer excludes those 18 or over

Seniors tennis excludes those under 35

Bantamweight boxing excludes those over 118 pounds

Grandmaster chess tournaments exclude those who have’t reached grandmaster level (1/5)

Amateur golf excludes those who went professional

Any college or university sports team excludes people not at that institution.

Professional cycling excludes people who’ve tested positive for banned drugs

Breaststroke swimming excludes those who only swim front-crawl (2/5)

Did I say *all*? Good gracious no. That would be wrong, exclusionary, hurtful. I meant all *except*:

- Sports for women, women in the sense of women-by-biology, ie adult humans who have no Y chromosome and weren’t born with testes. (3/5)

... No, *those* sports are not allowed to do any excluding, because other people are more important.

- Sports for girls, girls in the sense of girls-by-biology, ie children who have no Y chromosomes and weren’t born with any testes. Again, others are more important (4/5)

So, all sports can exclude *except* sports for females where exclusion suddenly becomes bad.

Could one group be socialised to put others first? And another to go out and get what they want? If only there was an academic discipline to study this sort of thing 5/5