ok, i don’t have kids, but i think this scenario is not the reason 99% of kids are in sports. Winning races, looking forward to olympic trials or even scholarships. scholarships are literally a money issue, if college was cheap enough it wouldn’t be a problem. if scholarship money was more available it wouldn’t be a problem, so it’s really just a medals issue.
and since i don’t have kids, consider this a stupid hypothetical. but it seems to me that at some very near future prosthetic tech is going to make amputees better at sports. say replace their feet with a prosthetic that allows them to be the fastest runner, or the fastest swimmer, or a crazy good mountain climber. this is going to happen. in the pure medal count way, the hypothetical kid who might be robbed of a medal is in a time crunch against technology.
but as a parent in sports, you would hopefully not use this as an opportunity to keep kids with amputated limbs out of school sports, or your kid’s division or whatever. because that would be inhumane and arbitrarily segregate kids who should be teammates.
the trans in sports issue is the same for me. let them be on varsity teams and compete in the meets together. let the ncaa decide how many medals they want to award.