transgender women. i.e. men, are not allowed to participate in women’s chess. people are complaining that women are jsut as capable as men.
https://ground.news/article/world-chess-federation-bars-transgender-women-from-competing-in-womens-events_725712?utm_source=headline-link&utm_medium=share
Yet female players have struggled to climb to the top of the real-life chess world. Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are women. The current top-rated female, Hou Yifan, is ranked 89th in the world, while the reigning women’s world champion Ju Wenjun is 404th.
https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-gender-imbalance-in-top-level-chess-150637
Over the past 15 years or so, there’s been a sea change as new technologies have generated a growing pile of evidence that there are inherent differences in how men’s and women’s brains are wired and how they work.
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different/