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And what about it? It's been demonstrated within equality movements that statistical biological strength corresponding to sex does not always correspond to actual performance.
Mixed sports will allow a more inclusive learning style, which technically will allow a greater variety of skills to be develop and more opportunities for the future.
Depends heavily on the sport and the quality of coaching. Direct contact sports - football in particular - present real risks to the players when there's a big disparity in size and strength.
But then there's an argument that middle/high school contact sports shouldn't be allowed to begin with, precisely because of the risk of injury.
So what you're essentially saying is we should make decisions based on the individuals weight class rather than gender?
That would be the logical thing to do.
Although, even then no public school should be sponsoring full contact sports, full stop.