World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events

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The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

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Plenty of enlightened gents hitting the thread here to rubbish the need for a women's category whilst simultaneously demonstrating the need for a women's category

This place feels more like Reddit every day. Incidentally I notice also that Lemmy has inherited Reddit's rule that every commenter is assumed male until proven otherwise. For a few days this place seemed like it might turn out different. Oh well.

can you explain this a bit more? I'm not seeing it

Double_A Nerdy men playing a board game are intidimating? How do women even get anything in life done of they are this fragile? WTF? Do you also want separate women-only schools, and women-only companies?

Rbmellor Tf are they in separate groups for? Don't girls know how sexy they look playing cheers?

System_glitch And the real reason is because women don't do well against men. They get dominated except for a very small minority. So I orde for women to have more parity, they have women's chess A biological man competing with them is, statistically, a huge advantage.

Two others I recall have been since been removed

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