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originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: AlienBorg
British rowing banned transwomen from female competitions
British Rowing is to continue to allow transgender women to compete in female races following a survey of its members. source:www.bbc.com...
North Carolina banned 'gender-affirming care' for minors
great news
Chess...banned transgender women
we've just been there I showed you the paragraph that proves you are living in a hate filled fantasy world, and you can't deduce from a simple statement
round and round you go with the lies... why? just to confirm your unhealthy hatred towards trans, that shows in a multitude of biased things you utter?
originally posted by: paraphi
Back to basics.
Men telling women who and what they can do when playing games, dating and playing in competitive sport.
Men telling women that they need to be included in women's activities. That men can be lesbians too, that they can hold records in women's sport, or force their way into women chess championships.
It's all men forcing women to change, and do as they are told. Irrespective of whether the man has "woman-face" and is sporting a frock, or is an intimidating black-clad and masked "activist" screeching "terf, terf, terf" at women's events. They are all men.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: AlienBorg
maybe you're right that the rowing was old news, however they'll have a hard time proving the requirement "gender assigned at birth".
they'll have a hard time implementing these policies. I'm looking forward for the first legal fully transitioned women born as man to actually getting banned...
won't happen, unless we go the DNA identity route
as for chess, I showed you 3 times already why fully transitioned men will still win women chess titles.
complete lack of actually understanding what is being said...
its getting really dumb
originally posted by: nolabel
We've all seen sport governing bodies banning transgender people from taking part in certain sports. Okay, we can understand why the bans have been imposed in sport. But this ban by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) forbidding transgender women from playing chess in womens events has got to be the most ridiculous yet. Chess isn't even a sport. Gender has no impact on the game.
TextThe International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women's events. The FIDE said individual cases would require "further analysis" and that a decision could take up to two years.
Many sports governing bodies have been working on policies towards transgender athletes, but chess does not involve comparable levels of physical activity.
In its policy decision, FIDE also said that trans men who had won women's titles before transitioning would see their titles abolished.
All quotes from BBC (Other sources are available)
"Stereotype threat" has been offered as a potential explanation of differential performance between men and women in some cognitive domains. Questions remain about the reliability and generality of the phenomenon. Previous studies have found that stereotype threat is activated in female chess players when they are matched against male players. I use data from over 5.5 million games of international tournament chess and find no evidence of a stereotype threat effect. In fact women players outperform expectations when playing men. Further analysis shows no influence of degree of challenge, nor of player age, nor of prevalence of female role models in national chess leagues on differences in performance when women play men versus when they play women. Though this analysis contradicts one specific mechanism of influence of gender stereotypes, the persistent differences between male and female players suggest that systematic factors do exist and remain to be uncovered.
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: nolabel
We've all seen sport governing bodies banning transgender people from taking part in certain sports. Okay, we can understand why the bans have been imposed in sport. But this ban by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) forbidding transgender women from playing chess in womens events has got to be the most ridiculous yet. Chess isn't even a sport. Gender has no impact on the game.
TextThe International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women's events. The FIDE said individual cases would require "further analysis" and that a decision could take up to two years.
Many sports governing bodies have been working on policies towards transgender athletes, but chess does not involve comparable levels of physical activity.
In its policy decision, FIDE also said that trans men who had won women's titles before transitioning would see their titles abolished.
All quotes from BBC (Other sources are available)
Well, gender having an impact on the game of chess needs further research, but so far you are correct, in the overall scheme of things. Therefore, a transgender woman should not be any worse or any better than a biological woman player, but it depends on a great many factors attributed to that biological woman player, which point to systemic issues within the professional game and sterotypical psychological and social systemic factors (for some).
"Stereotype threat" has been offered as a potential explanation of differential performance between men and women in some cognitive domains. Questions remain about the reliability and generality of the phenomenon. Previous studies have found that stereotype threat is activated in female chess players when they are matched against male players. I use data from over 5.5 million games of international tournament chess and find no evidence of a stereotype threat effect. In fact women players outperform expectations when playing men. Further analysis shows no influence of degree of challenge, nor of player age, nor of prevalence of female role models in national chess leagues on differences in performance when women play men versus when they play women. Though this analysis contradicts one specific mechanism of influence of gender stereotypes, the persistent differences between male and female players suggest that systematic factors do exist and remain to be uncovered.
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