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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Women experience a fair amount of harassment in the open league. They aren't forbidden from participating, but the environment discourages it, so they set up a women's league too.

If there wasn't widespread cognitive damage amongst a fair bunch of male players and organizers, they could implement a far more sensible solution: punishing harassment.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hope this is a joke. if it is, add "/s"

[-] iByteABit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have any papers backing this up?

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