Oh my god, this is freaking ridiculous.
Headline: Trans women are now banned from chess.
Which, you know, before I I get into this headline,
I this seems a little bit sexist, right?
I mean, why is there a division between men and
women in chess?
What advantage does a man have over another woman?
For you to say there's an advantage for men would
imply that you think that men are smarter than women.
That somehow a man is more intelligent and has an
higher IQ than woman.
Therefore, it would be a disadvantage for someone to be
transgendered.
Is that what's going on here?
But, anyways, back to the official statement.
Quote: change of gender is a change that has a
significant impact on players' status in chess.
Though part of me kind of wonders if there's an
anti-trans bias here, because this doesn't really pass the smell
test when they say they need a two years to
figure out whether or not a trans person is allowed
to play chess because somehow gender has such a major
factor in intelligence when it comes to chess.