World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback

In most sports, having a man's body is clearly an advantage over a woman's body.

With chess, you don't use the body. However, the way the typical male brain works/thinks is an advantage to men vs women.

Here's the clear proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)

"The title of Grandmaster, along with the lesser FIDE titles of International Master (IM), FIDE Master (FM), and Candidate Master (CM), is open to all players regardless of gender. The great majority of grandmasters are men, but 40 women have been awarded the GM title as of 2022, out of a total of about 2000 grandmasters.^[1] There is also a Woman Grandmaster title with lower requirements awarded only to women."

But the transgender issue really complicates this because it's related to the person's brain.

Does the person in a mans body with a female brain lose the advantage of the male brain?

Probably not because the biology of gender identification in the brain is likely just a tiny fraction of how that brain functions. So it likely maintains most of the other male analytical/competitive thinking traits but the gender part is defective. This needs more study and analysis.

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BTW, I was telling  my wife, Deb that being gay is actually a biological birth defect too. It's totally real and based on the way people are born in MOST cases but its a defect.

The most important part of biology in every species is procreating.  Being gay is ANTI procreating. Even if you adopt, you don't create a new life that wasn't there already to continue the survival of your species.

If everybody was gay, human beings would go extinct!

I suspected  our son  was gay from an early age and we have totally supported him and every gay person on the planet, so I hope you realize this is just a science fact not a social or judgmental thing.

Being gay is also the most positive environmental thing you can do!

The biggest environmental problem on this planet is NOT the fake climate crisis. We're having the best weather and climate in the last 1,000 years, the last time that it was this warm during the Medieval Warm Period. The best beneficial CO2 in a million years and still only 50% of the optimal level for most life.

 All the real crisis's are related to too many people, 8 billion on the planet and finite natural resources.

The worst thing that you can do to the planet is........have children.  It means 80 years worth of consuming natural resources that are running out.  I'm obviously not against having children, since we have 3 but am just stating another scientific fact.

From: "The real environmental crisis's"

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498