Ah yes, because we have been such a scourge in all the previous Olympics, had to put a stop to that 🙄
Professional bowling and Darts both have trans bans. That’s all you have to know about the legitimacy of these stupid things
I find it more silly that they have gender separation at all
It makes sense in bowling, because males have more experience playing with (their) balls!
**sad trumpet
Look, you are making a joke but imagine someone with a penis or something threw a darr rally hard or… moved a chess piece too hard or… because they are men they clearly move it smarter than harder or…
What were we saying, again?
The three best current female chess grandmasters are global ranks #123, #152, and #169. So unless the process of transitioning somehow damages your mental ability to play chess massively, there are at least 122 men that could at any point transition and become to top female grandmaster.
For some other sports, back when Serena Williams was the top female tennis player, she lost to the man at men’s ranking #203, who said he wasn’t even playing seriously.
That’s why there are very often female and open (and almost never mens) divisions in sports, and why trans players aren’t usually allowed in the female one - because usually, it would be really unfair.
This is just the truth even if people don’t like it. The trans people i talked to all confirmed the body aspect. In chess, it is well studied that variance in intelligence is wider in males. so there are far more dumb males but the majority of the top competitors will also be male. I hope we can accept this someday and still strive for fairness to everyone.
IOC is just bending over for bigots.
In these winter olympics the IOC forbade a Ukrainian athlete to wear a plain grey helmet with 12 portraits on them. There was no text or symbols, but it was deemed “too political”. (The helmet was to honor athletes killed in war)
If that doesn’t sound idiotic enough, Ukrainian paralympic athletes were not allowed to wear the outline of Ukraine on their gear. Again, “too political”.
Such a shame, I thought the previous policy was as ‘gold standard’ as you could get, so it’s disheartening to see them bend over like this.
First they support Russian Aggression and now they hate Transgender people. I’ll be boycotting every olympiad from here out it seems.
