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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Why is chess even seperated by gender? Its a completely non physical.
The environment around men favors them to be stronger than women. If there were no women's category, there would only be men playing chess and very very few women and that would sucks.
I think it's to give the top women a platform, for young girls to see people like them on the TV and make them believe they can do it too. If enough young girls start playing and keep playing, there should be plenty of female players that can compete with the best men in short order. There are also women's titles that have lower requirements than men's. It's a pretty controversial thing; some women refuse to take the "lesser" WGM title over the open IM title.
I'm not saying this works or I agree with it, but that's the thinking.
To be honest, the girl's category may not be as useful as it used to be but in certain country, it definitely is still very useful.
If transwomen wants to compete, compete in open. In my opinion, this has nothing to do whether or not a transwomen is a women but with the environment a person is growing in.
Because it's already a sausage fest
There is usually an open section (what I guess you think is the men's division), that is dominated by the top players who are almost if not all men. Why the top players are all men is not an easy answer.
Here is a post discussing it some. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-are-there-only-few-female-chess-players-at-the-top-level