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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I’m not going to wade into the absurd and overblown hysterics in this thread but the reason for this is that the real training advantages in chess start when children are young and when transwomen are still boys. Boys do not compete against girls. For whatever reason (prejudice, cultural bias against girls, earlier spatial brain development in boys, something else), the boys circuit is where there is both much more development and better competition. So, by the time the transwoman has this level of competition, she has been given access to a much larger and more advanced playing field than the female-sexed competitors. They are doing this because they want women to play chess, particularly internationally where women can’t remove hijabs etc., and allowing transwomen to play will stop that. It will also bar a lot of Muslim women from competition, and it is an area where Muslim women can shine and compete.

The people who are claiming this is just bias against trans people quite obviously know literally nothing about chess competition and development and sound profoundly hysterical and ignorant. They also clearly don’t care much or know much about international chess, nor about the conditions faced by women playing chess outside the US. It’s a myopic, US-centric, rather spoiled-sounding viewpoint. [/quote]

What's your explanation for trans men giving up their titles from before they transitioned?  It sure sounds like they're bigoted against trans people and this isn't about trans women specifically.[/quote]

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