Curious as to what the justification is for having gendered chess categories in the first place, because literally the only thing I can think of ultimately amounts to they believe women are innately stupid.

@stavvers given that they banned trans men too, we're about to get a wave of TERF talking points about how testosterone makes you smart and if you get it at any point in your life you just become too much of a genius for any cis woman to handle -_-

@ami_angelwings @stavvers they didn’t ban trans men and didn’t say they’d need a multi year process of determining if they could play, they just said that they would be stripped of all of the titles that they earned if they competed in the women’s division. Apparently acquiring the title of “women’s grandmaster” requires less achievement than acquiring the title of “grandmaster” in the general/men’s division, so they go back to square one.