Olympic silver medalist in swimming Yevgeny Korotyshkin said that two gender categories are enough for the sport, and further differentiation could lead its development to a dead end.
World Aquatics previously banned transgender people from women’s competitions and created an open category, which is included for the first time in the October World Cup competition schedule in Berlin.
“If this has appeared in the world, we cannot ignore it. Again, the question is what will be the number of candidates in this category. We had two categories, and I think we could stop there.
Will it turn into a competition like the Marvel Universe? Will there be subcategories? Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man… In the United Kingdom, to go to the theater, you have to choose from 18 sub-categories to indicate your gender. I am afraid that if the sport goes down this path, it will be a dead end in its development, – said Korotyshkin “”.
Source : MatchTV
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