[ExI] et tu chess?

[William Flynn Wallace]

People who think that they are another sex usually have known it for a long
time.  It goes far beyond wanting to wear flowery dresses.  In one famous
case, a baby with flawed genitalia was surgically made into a female and
raised that way.

Later on he/she  said that he knew all along he was male, got the operation
and married and had kids (adopted I assume).    bill w

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:36 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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>> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
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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
>> whom their score distribution most resembles…
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>> Well there is this: the sport of chess sidesteps the whole locker room
>> issue.
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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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>> spike
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