TheJenUnless you move your pieces around with your genitals, there is no goddamm good reason for CHESS COMPETITIONS to ban transgender players.
I MEAN COME THE FUCK ON.
For the folks amazed that chess competition would be segregated:
• Most women couldn't attend colleges or universities until well into the 20th century.
• Numerous Nobel Prizes have been awarded to men who stole research from women.
• Larger academic pursuits, major research positions, grants, etc. are still largely closed to women.
Academic gatekeeping is a tool of the patriarchy to keep us stupid, barefoot, and pregnant in the kitchen. This is part of that.
NOTE: NOT ALL OF THEM ARE. I KNOW
The Barking Shark@JenWojcik As a man, I am terribly embarrassed by this behavior.