As they do everything to ignore the ACTUAL issues… lack of access/funding and support/training access, problematic management, actual creeps working on the teams who can’t be spoken out about without retaliation, people stalking the teams and harassing players, pay inequalities, transportation, social stigma, lack of role models… But sure, a dozen women with a different upbringings who just want to live their lives doing what they enjoy, being a team player, is “the sole issue”. 🙄
see this is why I’ve become convinced that transphobia is just sexism reinvented. there is no biological advantage in chess, none, but these people (mostly men) believe that people born as men are superior to women in intelligence too so they see it as ‘unfair’ that a trans woman play against a cis woman. the thinly veiled sexism is so obvious