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.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    If the gender ratio was something like 1:4 or less, you’d have an argument that everyone should just get along. But there’s like 16 times more men in chess than women and separate tournaments means the gals won’t have to learn chest thumping to deal with the asshole faction they can simply be catty which they already know how to do.

    • EsheLynn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      My apologies. I still don’t understand. Are you suggesting that women are too fragile to deal with men’s posturing, or what? It’s fucking chess. Unless someone is arguing there are blatant skill discrepancies between men an women, it still doesn’t makes sense why there are divided tournaments. Is the argument women are less strategically minded, or what?

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What the fuck is this sexist shit? Women are inharently catty and men are inharently aggressive?

      If there’s an issue with men being aggressive, there needs to be rules to prevent it. If the ratio is a problem, there needs to be tools created to address that. The solution isn’t “women are catty and sensitive, so they need to be seperate.”

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Because the sexes tend to display aggression, status competition etc. in different ways. Are there catty men and chest-thumping women sure but bimodal distribution. Just like e.g. height.

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m not going to argue with it being correct because it doesn’t matter. If the issue is aggression then it’s aggression, so just say aggression. Catty is also an insulting term. The league should have sportsmanship requirements and it shouldn’t matter how your aggression is presented or what gender you are when you are aggressive.

              • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Catty is just as insulting as chest thumping. I’m very much equal opportunity when it comes to dunking on the sexes.

                …and sportsmanship is a nice sentiment but people actually have to agree on sticking to it. Basically only Judo comes to mind when it comes to sports which will disqualify you for taunts and stuff and refusing to shake hands and, well, chess isn’t dominated by Japanese.