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 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.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    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

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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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