Curious as to what the justification is for having gendered chess categories in the first place, because literally the only thing I can think of ultimately amounts to they believe women are innately stupid.
@stavvers from what else i've seen in the last day or so, it seems that [decoded] the chess tournament scene was so toxically misogynistic that trying to compete in it as a woman was practically impossible, and making a whole separate tournament for women was, to them, easier and preferable to fixing it.