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.

  • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t like running or something where men have a significant advantage physically over women just make it mixed gender and be done with it people can claim whatever gender they want and chess can avoid getting into a politically charged firestorm

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Except because of some factors, that’s exactly the case. There have been around 2000 grandmasters ever. Only around 40 are women. Don’t ask me why, I’m not touching the topic with a 10 meter pole.

      • ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Probably because there have been a lot more make chess players in general historically. It’s still a long way from an even split today and was probably even more imbalanced.

        • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          No it isn’t. Genius distribution is different between men and women but STEM isn’t populated solely, or even significantly, by geniuses

      • Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        There have been many studies done on the factors that are relevant. There are near irrefutable mounds of evidence.

        However, the biggest brained take on this is,

        I’m not touching the topic with a 10 meter pole.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Please use some punctuation, your comment was really hard to read.

      Having said that, I agree

    • Shanedino@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There is already an open division there is just also a womens division to provide additional support and opportunities for women in chess.