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.

        • _wintermute@lemmy.world
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          What you have just said is that there is a cultural difference and I agree with that. Dont confuse that with a difference based on sex, or physiology, in other words.

          Obviously, men and women on a 1:1 basis have equal potential to excel at chess, based on their sex, right?

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              1 year ago

              I can’t help you to understand the difference between cultural statistics and physiological potential I guess lol

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                  1 year ago

                  Why would that be my suggestion. My suggestion is you lot need to learn how to fucking read statistics lol. I don’t give a fuck about chess, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that women are not worse at chess because they are women. The only thing the chess numbers prove is that men play chess at a professional/competitive level at much higher rates than women.

                  • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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                    I understand statistics just fine. Fuck you for “you lot”.

                    I was asking you a question because I was genuinely curious, but you can fuck right off with that attidute.

                    You’re just virtue signalling without giving any suggestions on how to improve the situation.

                    Don’t bother replying, asshat.

    • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Anyone know what the highest rated trans male and trans female chess players are? Would be interesting to know if this rule is even currently necessary.

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        I can’t find any trans men ranked, but the highest rating I can find for a trans woman is Natalia Pares Vives with a ranking of 2213, or about 325th on the chess.com women’s rankings.