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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The International Chess Federation also banned trans women from competing against women because… I don’t know… they can lift the pieces off the board easier with all their big muscles?
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Oddly, it is actually the reality that men are better than women at chess on average, with no woman ever being remotely competitive at the highest level. There has been a long debate that as far as I know remains unresolved about where there are biological / neurological reasons for that, in addition to the obvious "larger pool of players to draw from" factor.
Honestly, this competitive imbalance issue only seems to me to matter when we're talking about the top echelons of women's sports (at whatever age bracket). And hilariously, this is the only context in which the vast majority of the people who are really,
really upset about this care in any way about women's sports.