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.

  • superkret@feddit.deEnglish
    172·
    1 year ago

    Because otherwise women couldn’t currently compete beyond the local level. But I don’t have an explanation for the difference in playing levels beyond the fact that much fewer women seem to be interested in playing Chess competitively.

      • superkret@feddit.deEnglish
        212·
        1 year ago

        No. First of all Chess has nothing to do with being smart in any sense I would use the word.
        Otherwise a Raspberry Pi would outsmart all of humanity.

        Secondly, it’s much more similar to why the Faroe Islands can’t compete in soccer with France.
        Nothing suggests they have less natural talent for soccer (and it’s quite popular there), but there’s just 1/1000 the number of players to draw from.

        • _wintermute@lemmy.worldEnglish
          112·
          1 year ago

          Whoa, watch out with that logical thinking around here. As has been demonstrated by votes in a comment chain of mine further up the thread, the number of women at the top of the chess scene is totally indicative of womens’ intrinsic ability to play chess. It has nothing to do with the amount of women who play chess vs the amount of men who play chess! /s

          But yeah, it’s simple shit. If men outnumber women 100:1 in the competitive chess scene then obviously we expect women to be extremely under represented at the top. But misogynists gonna misogyny.

      • DrRatso@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        There is an open bracket (where anyone can play) and a womens bracket, currently women do not perform well enough to play internationally in the open bracket. What they are stating are merely facts. And really were it not for the existence of the womens bracket it is possible that women would perform even worse.