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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What the fuck is this sexist shit? Women are inharently catty and men are inharently aggressive?

If there's an issue with men being aggressive, there needs to be rules to prevent it. If the ratio is a problem, there needs to be tools created to address that. The solution isn't "women are catty and sensitive, so they need to be seperate."

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

Erm, no. Both are aggressive. Cattiness is aggression.

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

Ok, why did you say men do chest thumping and women are catty?

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

Because the sexes tend to display aggression, status competition etc. in different ways. Are there catty men and chest-thumping women sure but bimodal distribution. Just like e.g. height.

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

I'm not going to argue with it being correct because it doesn't matter. If the issue is aggression then it's aggression, so just say aggression. Catty is also an insulting term. The league should have sportsmanship requirements and it shouldn't matter how your aggression is presented or what gender you are when you are aggressive.

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

Catty is just as insulting as chest thumping. I'm very much equal opportunity when it comes to dunking on the sexes.

...and sportsmanship is a nice sentiment but people actually have to agree on sticking to it. Basically only Judo comes to mind when it comes to sports which will disqualify you for taunts and stuff and refusing to shake hands and, well, chess isn't dominated by Japanese.