ISU Transgender Policy

[overedge]

I am looking at how the sport is currently scored and what is the judges current biases are not what or how I would like them to be. Under the current system everything I have said is correct. Let's remember that the reason that there is an over emphasis on jumping triple axels and quads is because fan could not understand why a clean program with by a skater with soso skating skills could be beaten by someone with out of this world skating skills who had a fall. Let's say they did change the system how long before there would be complaints about not rewarding the harder elements enough.

There are always complaints whenever the scoring system is adjusted, no matter what the changes are. "There might be complaints" is not a valid reason to leave things as they are.

Eventually the ISU will have to come to grips with the question of gender divisions in skating, and not just by issuing a nice statement about being inclusive of all gender identities. But when (if ever) it gets to that point, it is completely feasible for the ISU to adjust the scoring system to make it more equitable.

 

[Trillian]

I am looking at how the sport is currently scored and what is the judges current biases are not what or how I would like them to be.

So you’re taking into account how judges all over the world are famously biased in favor of LGBTQ skaters, especially women. (ETA: And non-gender-conforming women! Double the bonus points!) Got it.

 

[gkelly]

So basically fundamentally change the program requirements and scoring correct.

There have been many changes to the short program requirements every few years ever since short programs were first introduced.

There have been several major changes to the competition structure and the scoring at various points over the history of the sport.

The most significant, for singles skating specifically, were the introduction of the short program, the elimination of school figures, and (for all disciplines) the switch from ordinal rankings to IJS.

The most recent change to program structure was removing a jumping pass from the men's free skate just a couple years ago.

Before that, about 12 years ago, removing the spiral sequence/second step sequence from the short program (which had been there since 1989, which marked another major restructuring of the short program compared to how it had existed in the 1970s and 80s), and consolidating the compulsory dances and original dance into the "short dance" (now called "rhythm dance").

Nothing is set in stone.

 

[MacMadame]

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So I'm curious. Have you read this thread from the beginning? And, if so, why are you bringing up points that have been made at least once (and often more than that) before?