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Topic	Trans women banned from top-level female chess
Robot2600 08/16/23 8:22:23 PM #33:	DKBananaSlamma posted... Why is there male and female categories of Chess ? tl;dr to encourage women to play why? society treats women chess players like absolute shit, and encourages competition in children in a highly gendered way. why are the best gymnasts women? we reward that in a girl and punish a boy, even through microaggressions, for the same thing. chess was historically HIGHLY GENDERED, women were assaulted, excluded, mocked and harassed in chess clubs for 100+ years so, yes, NOW, that's why we have the women's league. --- --- <cite>Robot2600 posted [p:975493706] in Trans wome... [t:80538731]...</cite> <quote>DKBananaSlamma posted... </cite><quote>Why is there male and female categories of Chess ?</quote>tl;dr to encourage women to playwhy? society treats women chess players like absolute shit, and encourages competition in children in a highly gendered way. why are the best gymnasts women? we reward that in a girl and punish a boy, even through microaggressions, for the same thing.chess was historically HIGHLY GENDERED, women were assaulted, excluded, mocked and harassed in chess clubs for 100+ years so, yes, NOW,that's why we have the women's league. --- ---</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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