Yes, I found the participation rate argument very sound.

I wonder what else might be similarly biased?

Two examples come to mind:

1. Medical test subjects are predominantly if not exclusively male. So any new medication on the market are tailored for the physis and metabolism of a male body while the same medication might have different effects (including side effects) when it comes to women.

2. Scientific findings are often based on male bias, e.g. the remains of a high status person were declared being male. Only decades later with new technology was it possible to determine it was in fact a women. (See the Ivory man)

But this conversation would deserve its.owm thread. The OP post is regarding how women (cis and transgendered people) are treated in chess. The absurdity of backwards thinking and unfairness when it comes to treating women and men as assigned at birth. I’m not sure, if you missed the part where transgendered men are stripped of their titles when transitioning to male, while people transitioning to female are allowed to keep theirs.

This goes so much deeper. Like another commenter posted: “institutionalized patriarchy”

Equally interesting study comes to the conclusion: gender differences in chess go back on the overrepresentation of men in chess in general

Article on the research: Why Men Rank Higher than Women at Chess (It’s Not Biological)

I don’t have access to what seems to be the actual study, but maybe you do: Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains

This is a disturbing and insulting decision to both cis-women as well as transgender men and women.

Besides the decision itself, here are some additional “gems” that show its backwardness:

Transgender men who transition after winning women’s titles would see those titles “abolished,” the federation said, while holding out the possibility of a reinstatement “if the person changes the gender back to a woman.”

“If a player has changed the gender from a man into a woman, all the previous titles remain eligible,” the federation said.

And, if it wouldn’t be so sad, this here would have me roling on the floor. It seems, FIDE has not reached 2023 yet… (It also sadly shows that even some women are still stuck in the 1950’s)

A top global chess official Friday called for more research into whether factors such as hormone levels and physical endurance might have an impact on players’ abilities at the male-dominated game. Her comments came after the world chess federation was heavily criticized for its decision to block transgender women from official women’s events. (…)

(…)“What is still not clear is if the hormonal levels do influence the competitiveness in chess,” Reizniece-Ozola said by video from Latvia’s capital, Riga. “There is no serious research or scientific analysis that would prove one or the other way. There are speculations, but no more than that.”

One of the reasons why so few women play chess and the reality of what female chess players had and have to fight against:

UK MP Angela Eagle, who was a joint winner of the 1976 British Girls’ Under-18 chess championship, said: “There is no physical advantage in chess unless you believe men are inherently more able to play than women - I spent my chess career being told women’s brains were smaller than men’s and we shouldn’t even be playing.”

“This ban is ridiculous and offensive to women,” she added.

Edit: removed redundancy

The article is well worth a read. I didn’t want to copy & paste the whole article due to its length, but it goes into different reasons why women tend to have more migraines than men (e.g. estrogen/progesteron levels) and in which cases it might be a better strategy to avoid medication (e.g. birth control) with estrogen.

I had tried to participate one or two iterations ago. Each and every single pixel I tried to contribute was immediately turned into a red pixel by a bot. Took all the fun out of it.

The picture was there and it was clear where they were trying to get to, but the red dots completely destroyed it.

I had enough of it after that. It’s not worth it having to wait five minutes to place one pixel just to have it instantly undone again.

I’m utterly horrified by what’s going on there. Those poor women!

And TikTok. They’ve listed that one, too.

TikTok? Really Google?!

That’s absolutely horrifying and showcases how little women’s health is worth to law makers.

Absolutely disgusting! I feel for the women in Kentucky.

Thank you! That was really interesting to watch. And it’s so tragic what happened to Aaron.

Redditor for 15 years, mostly lurker. I’ve never used the app and only used old.reddit. I’ve moved on the first black out day and so far, I’m not missing it. I prefer the vibe on Lemmy and hope, the conversations here stay as friendly as the communities grow :)

You might like !women 🙂

Thanks for creating the community.

You might also want to look at !women created by makeitso.

That sub had been created in response to threads that were looking for a community with a more inclusive sounding name that’s not connected with DNA :)

(Full disclosure: I’m not the creator or mod of that sub. I just want to promote it as it (still) has a less recognizable name for folks coming from r/Twox such as myself).

Yes, that was the sentiment of previous threads around this as well.

makeitso has created !women to be and sound more inclusive.

Yes there is:

!women

The consensus of previous similar threads looking for something akin to r/Twoxchromosomes was to move away from DNA related names to sound more inclusive and welcoming transgender and non-binary folks. 🙂

In this thread from some days ago are some great suggestions, worth a look at:

Lemmings of Ask Lemmy, what should our official logo and masthead be?

The question mark is great. Personally lI like the suggestions that stick closer to the official Lemmy logo. Maybe with some more colour?