[ExI] et tu chess?

[Will Steinberg]

Men do tend to have better spatial/logic reasoning.

Also, transwomen have the benefit of usually decades of education as an
encultured man.  Getting treated like you're better at chess will make you
better at chess, or make you work harder and happier, at least.

The women's leagues exist because women are shut out of those kinds of
spaces.  I think the reason they are banning transwomen is that it seems
like a bit of an exploit to spend your life in those spaces as a man,
reaping the benefits, and then switching over.

The whole issue is a fucking minefield.  I think if people were less fucked
up by environmental toxins, and less fucked up by mental toxins, and humans
of both sexes were allowed to express themselves better, the whole nu-trans
fad wouldn't really be a thing.  Wanting to wear flamboyant or flowing
clothing as a man, or have long, beautiful hair, doesn't mean you have to
get crippling life-altering and life-shortening surgery that chains you to
a lifelong medication regime.  I think most of these people don't really
understand the lives they might be in for, especially kids.  Seems to me to
have low levels of truly informed consent.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 5:44 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…I would think the consistent heuristic would be that, in just about any
> competitive environment, trans-women should be grouped with the cis-group
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> Well there is this: the sport of chess sidesteps the whole locker room
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> I hez to bring this up, but I will, somewhat cautiously: Competition math
> is completely dominated by XYs, and they don’t have a women’s division in
> that sport.  From what I can tell, competition math is even more male
> dominated than chess.  Don’t know why: that sport doesn’t require or
> benefit from testosterone as far as I can tell.
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