Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The percentage of grand chess masters are predominately male as are the participants who qualify to represent their countries in the international math Olympiad. There are 618 participants this year and only 67 are female.

Maybe there is really a biological difference in math and chess ability between males and females? I don’t think researches can get funding to study this issue but there has to be a reason.

I haven’t seen any studies on chess (probably because I haven’t looked), but there absolutely have been studies on math ability and recent studies show no difference between the sexes. There was a consistent difference in older studies, before roughly the 1980s, but the difference narrowed around the 90s and started disappearing in the 2000s. The studies just tracked math scores on a large scale so can’t prove causation, but the obvious inference is that girls’ scores have gone up as “girls can’t do math” stereotypes have lost some strength.

Those numbers are only for the US, so I’m not sure what the trends are globally. But the discussion that I saw noted that both boys AND girls in many other countries do better than US boys on average. The US isn’t very good at teaching math.

The difference isn’t biological or at least not primarily biological. It is in the vastly better training and competition that boys get in chess, which a transwomen would have benefited from.

Anonymous wrote:The percentage of grand chess masters are predominately male as are the participants who qualify to represent their countries in the international math Olympiad. There are 618 participants this year and only 67 are female.

Maybe there is really a biological difference in math and chess ability between males and females? I don’t think researches can get funding to study this issue but there has to be a reason.

I haven’t seen any studies on chess (probably because I haven’t looked), but there absolutely have been studies on math ability and recent studies show no difference between the sexes. There was a consistent difference in older studies, before roughly the 1980s, but the difference narrowed around the 90s and started disappearing in the 2000s. The studies just tracked math scores on a large scale so can’t prove causation, but the obvious inference is that girls’ scores have gone up as “girls can’t do math” stereotypes have lost some strength.

Those numbers are only for the US, so I’m not sure what the trends are globally. But the discussion that I saw noted that both boys AND girls in many other countries do better than US boys on average. The US isn’t very good at teaching math.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

Dems will sell their mother for five votes.

They don't care much about their kids -- much less other people's.

See who closed our schools for two years, unlike EVERY single EU country and a few brave US states.

First, our schools weren't closed for two years. They were virtual for one year, hybrid for one quarter. Also, schools which had the ability to maintain 6' of distancing remained open for almost the entire time.

Second, EU countries did close schools. they didn't always close them at the same times and for the same length, but they did.

Third, Trump was President during the pandemic.

I don’t know anyone who would agree with that statement.

Most Americans in 2023 agree democrats are to blame for dividing America.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

FFS
Go back into your slime pit.

Trans people are being targeted by those vile GOP sh*theads like DeSantis and the rest of the excrement that makes up the remainder of the Grand Old Party.

Dems are the ones making it OK for trans folk to come out and live normal lives. The GOP want them to stay hidden and miserable. The GOP is so cruel and evil.

Dems are the ones making it OK for trans folk to come out and live normal lives. I see, so Democrats get to decide what is normal or not normal. Do Independents get a say? Just asking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

Dems will sell their mother for five votes.

They don't care much about their kids -- much less other people's.

See who closed our schools for two years, unlike EVERY single EU country and a few brave US states.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

FFS
Go back into your slime pit.

Trans people are being targeted by those vile GOP sh*theads like DeSantis and the rest of the excrement that makes up the remainder of the Grand Old Party.

Dems are the ones making it OK for trans folk to come out and live normal lives. The GOP want them to stay hidden and miserable. The GOP is so cruel and evil.

Triggered much? Perhaps you should get your psych meds adjusted.

It is you who dwells in a slime pit full of LWNJs. Be honest (I know that’s difficult for you):

Your party doesn’t give a crap about trans people, beyond their votes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

+1

Anonymous wrote:Parades, merchandise, dedicated recognition days/month, marketing opportunity for any company willing to adjust their logo, socially accepted intimidation and ostracism for dissenters…yep, marginalized population!

Budweiser gave out a rainbow can, so everything is better for transgender people. Congratulations everyone, we did it!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”

FFS
Go back into your slime pit.

Trans people are being targeted by those vile GOP sh*theads like DeSantis and the rest of the excrement that makes up the remainder of the Grand Old Party.

Dems are the ones making it OK for trans folk to come out and live normal lives. The GOP want them to stay hidden and miserable. The GOP is so cruel and evil.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parades, merchandise, dedicated recognition days/month, marketing opportunity for any company willing to adjust their logo, socially accepted intimidation and ostracism for dissenters…yep, marginalized population!

What I’ve seen is the opposite. Chris Rock is out here firing machine guns at beer cans because a trans woman got a single ad deal.

Kid Rock. A hybrid genre musical artist from suburban Michigan that blended country, rock and hip hop and was the ying to Eminem's Deroit yang. Since making it big he has leaned into the country rock aspects of his musical persona and become more Nashville based. Chris Rock on the other hand is a comedian from NYC. Chris Rock has a similar style to Dave Chappelle who is also a comedian, and from DC. Chris Rock made fun of Halle Berry and got slapped at the Oscars by Will Smith. Dave Chappelle has made fun of transgenderism and been criticized for it howver the transgender jokes he made were similar in tone to his jokes about both black and white people. All three are Gen Xers that were popular around the turn of the century that have been coasting on their past success since then. The three of them together, along with JK Rowland and the boy/girl band artists like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, pretty much define nineties/naughties popular American culture for all its good and bad.

I think lots of people get confused saying there are men’s divisions and woman’s divisions in pro sports. There are not.

Basically every sport has an open division for all (NBA, NHL, MLB, etc.) and a woman’s only division. If there were no woman’s leagues there would be almost no woman professional athletes.

Chess has an open division for all, unlike most sports women compete in it as male physical advantage is not applicable. But chess still has some woman’s tournaments that serve a purpose to promote more women entering the game. Also, there are woman who don’t compete in mix gendered sport, mainly in the Middle East, and this gives them a forum to compete.

Anonymous wrote:I wish the whole trans issue would just go away. Why is there more talk of trans stuff in the last three years than there was in the last 50?

- because democrats have weaponized the issue simply to get votes from trans people, and the families / friends of trans people.

Democrats pander and want to recruit them as “allies.”