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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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently, the top women don't come close to the top men. Considering how few female chess players are in comparison, it's not a surprise.

Having a women's league means you can have chess news about women's tournaments and champs and give them some visibility.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently, the top women don’t come close to the top men

because they're excluded at all levels, lets not pretend it's because women aren't as good and need "protecting" from the "superior" men.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That doesn't make any sense.

Yes, they don't compete with men, but they still have women's league and women from that league don't come close to men (not all, ofcourse).

Could making united league deter women even more? Very possible.

I am not against, but still I think a strong bump in women's chess league with marketing, money, better condition would be great, before possible merging.

Currently, women would just suffer with results for long time.

Unfortunately Chess doesn't seem as healthy and open for that, and that is just sad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like if you really wanted to know you could easily look up the barriers that women face in chess (and in all sports), and I honestly don't feel like spoon feeding you such basics, so I'm going to just paste my other reply here and leave it up to you to start educating yourself if you really want to:

The solution to men harassing women (and generally making them unwelcome, as they do) should not be to segregate women though, it should be to discipline men.
Which leads me to the real reason why women are segregated (because clearly isn't about their safety or their inclusion) - because the men involved would have an absolute breakdown if they were beaten by a woman (not a problem exclusive to chess, either).