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Members of a women’s fishing team refuse to compete alongside trans teammate
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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I am very much failing to see how the chess thing makes any sense...
It seems that the chess association that did that is operating from a sexist stance of "men are inherently more logical than women" which led to their transphobic stance of "trans women are not to play ciswomen"
Am I missing something? How does it make sense?
In chess the highest ranked men refused to play any women. Really, any man refused to play any woman in a ranked match.
To get good at chess, you need to play better opponents.
By not playing women, it meant women would never get as good as the best men.
That's why a women's chess league made sense, and why after it women have ranked in the top 10 globally. Because they were able to find each other and have matches.
My point was, in a solo activity like fishing, there's no need for a women's league. It's not like fishing in a tournament against other people somehow makes you catch bigger fish.
I feel like, at a certain ranking, refusing to play (unless previously beaten said opponent in X amount of time) should be an automatic forfeit. And fuck anyone who says that would reduce overall skill, Magnus Carlsen can eat my left, anal-vibrating, nut.