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.
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”.
Ah yes, because we have been such a scourge in all the previous Olympics, had to put a stop to that 🙄
Look, you are making a joke but imagine someone with a penis or something threw a dart 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?
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
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 the top female grandmaster. And if there was no womens only chess championships, there would be I think… One? Female grandmaster in the entire history of chess? Judith Polgar got to rank #10. Second highest was Hou Yifan at #55.
For some other sports, back when Serena Williams was the top women’s 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 womens and open (and almost never mens) divisions in sports, and why trans players aren’t usually allowed in the womens one - because usually, it would be really unfair.
The open one is open, female athletes are free to compete in them. They essentially never do because they can’t qualify, but if you want to know what sports without gendered brackets would look like, it would pretty much be men only.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.
