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Edited title to better incorporate the ShaveYourEyebrows name drop

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the "biological advantage" argument? Is it like.. if you were assigned male at birth, but transition later in life, some people will try to argue that the trans person has a biological advantage?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The "biological advantage" is imagined bull manure. The short list of factors that assigned birth gender DOES impact omits boardgame skills.

Edit: gender

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam 6 points 2 months ago

Not to mention, it impacts far fewer sports than many think, especially in high-level competition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But does it actually affect board game skills?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm 😞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Being trans really does give an unfair advantage in chess somehow... and so does wearing jeans.

I'm sure a trans woman wearing jeans would be so powerful at chess FiDE would have to invent a title above grandmaster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard the term itself, but is it referring to having more muscle mass due to higher levels of testosterone in men?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think so. It also includes height, skeletal build, and supposedly bone density

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yap thats it.

[–] Shiggles 1 points 2 months ago

It comes up for physical sports, I think swimming has had a few notable examples for instance. Most people arguing it’s an issue aren’t directly affected and discussions around it are rarely if ever civil from either side - I think there’s a legitimate discussion that could be had about where might be reasonable to draw a line between “has a biological advantage” versus not but the politicization of the issue by the right has made that conversation nigh impossible.