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.

    • Smk@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      The environment around men favors them to be stronger than women. If there were no women’s category, there would only be men playing chess and very very few women and that would sucks.

      • MegaUmbreon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s to give the top women a platform, for young girls to see people like them on the TV and make them believe they can do it too. If enough young girls start playing and keep playing, there should be plenty of female players that can compete with the best men in short order. There are also women’s titles that have lower requirements than men’s. It’s a pretty controversial thing; some women refuse to take the “lesser” WGM title over the open IM title.

        I’m not saying this works or I agree with it, but that’s the thinking.

    • ax1900kr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      312·
      1 year ago

      Some men are smarter than others, if men can see that. Then why can you see that in average, specially in this high level competition, men are just smarter than women? Top 5 women dont even rank in the top 100 men’s category.