Gender Discrimination and Weight Class in Sports Competitions

Gender discrimination in sports competitions means preventing women from competing with men. proponents and advers pleaded many arguments for the morality and non-morality of gender discrimination in sports competitions. The proponents argue the argument of justice in competition and the argument of sweet tension of uncertainty of the outcome on the morality of women competing with each other based on weight class in sports such as boxing and wrestling. According to the proponents, in order to establish justice and also to exist unpredictable the outcome of the competition, the competitions should be wreaked separately according to the division of the weight class of the sports. Based on this and due to the undeniable physical differences between women and men, gender discrimination in sports competitions is considered ethical, which in this article will examine and criticize these arguments.Keywords: Gender Discrimination, Sports Competition, Justice in Competition, Sweet Tension Uncertainty of Result, Weight Class.

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Gender Discrimination ، sports competition ، justice in competition ، sweet tension uncertainty of the outcome ، weight class