diff --git a/pkg/cluster/internal/create/create.go b/pkg/cluster/internal/create/create.go
index add0df5d23..e89d789605 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/internal/create/create.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/internal/create/create.go
@@ -22,11 +22,9 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/alessio/shellescape"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/version"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/internal/delete"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/internal/providers"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/nodeutils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/internal/apis/config"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/internal/apis/config/encoding"
@@ -108,11 +106,6 @@ func Cluster(logger log.Logger, p providers.Provider, opts *ClusterOptions) erro
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// TODO: remove once 1.20 is EOL or we no longer want to support dual-stack in 1.20 images
-	if err := fixupDualStack(p, opts.Config); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	// TODO(bentheelder): make this controllable from the command line?
 	actionsToRun := []actions.Action{
 		loadbalancer.NewAction(), // setup external loadbalancer
@@ -262,64 +255,3 @@ func validateProvider(p providers.Provider) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
-// fixupDualStack enables the Kubeadm feature gate if kubernetes version is 1.20
-// previous versions doesn't support dual-stack so it returns an error
-// 1.21+ enable the feature gate by default
-func fixupDualStack(p providers.Provider, cfg *config.Cluster) error {
-	// return early if is not dualstack
-	if cfg.Networking.IPFamily != config.DualStackFamily {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	// we need to obtain the kubernetes version from the nodes
-	name := cfg.Name
-	n, err := p.ListNodes(name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if len(n) == 0 {
-		return errors.New("no nodes found")
-	}
-	// use the first control plane node available
-	// we validate against the apiserver version.
-	node, err := nodeutils.BootstrapControlPlaneNode(n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	kubeVersion, err := nodeutils.KubeVersion(node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to get kubernetes version from node %s", node.String())
-	}
-	ver, err := version.ParseSemantic(kubeVersion)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to parse node version %s", kubeVersion)
-	}
-
-	// dual-stack is only supported in 1.20+
-	if ver.LessThan(version.MustParseSemantic("v1.20.0")) {
-		return errors.New("failed to create cluster, dual-stack is only supported on Kubernetes versions 1.20+")
-	}
-
-	// dual-stack feature gate is enabled by default since 1.21
-	if ver.AtLeast(version.MustParseSemantic("v1.21.0")) {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	// for 1.20 we have to explicitly enable the feature gate
-	// we can patch kubeadm here so we avoid to plumb this hack further
-	dualPatch := `
-apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta2
-kind: ClusterConfiguration
-metadata:
-  name: config
-featureGates:
-  IPv6DualStack: true
-`
-	if len(cfg.KubeadmConfigPatches) > 0 {
-		cfg.KubeadmConfigPatches = append(cfg.KubeadmConfigPatches, dualPatch)
-	} else {
-		cfg.KubeadmConfigPatches = []string{dualPatch}
-	}
-	return nil
-}