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.
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.