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I feel like this idea is a little too reductionist. Like yeah sports are productive. But you know what else isn't? Movies, books, art majors, history majors, and countless other things that we still need in society.
Sports are entertainment, and that should be a good enough reason for something to exist. You might not like it and that's fine, and you can argue that athletes are over paid (people doing fencing definitely aren't) but just reducing them how much productive output they create is just dumb.
Edit: this comment is not discussing trans folks competing in sports. I think it's a little more complicated than "they should be allowed", but I also don't think banning trans folks is the answer either. This comment is purely discussing the concept of sports in society.