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Originally Posted by gregorio
Please don't just throw out statements like this without any evidence to back it up. I tried to confirm what you claim and here's what I found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffen...rans_women_to/
Perhaps you are letting some unconscious transphobic biases cloud your judgement
this is just stupid, instead of posting facts you lean on the opinion of others
well played hitting both the social proof and apeal to authority fallacy in one single swoop
i literally wager on esports for a living - i'm very good at it
the reason why there are so few women's only events these days is because the sponsors/hosts don't want to open pandoras box
they either ban transwoman and catch flak from the left
or they say any woman can play and then trans woman absolutely dominate, just throttle and destroy the cisgender entrants to the point where now you upset the other side who are mad that now there's no space for women to compete
this really came to a head when scarlett, one of the top starcraft II zergs of all time used to play and absolutely slaughter at women's only events
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/good-game
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Two reasons for everyone’s astonishment: Scarlett was neither from South Korea, where StarCraft has rivalled baseball in popularity, nor a young man, like all the other top players. Korean Kryptonite, she has been called. The most accomplished woman in the young history of electronic sports.
most accomplish woman in the history of esports (and nobody else is even remotely close) is a transfemale
valorant, which is perhaps the most viable female league going, has far fewer trans players than more open "sign up and play" formats because there are teams that field rosters and in addition to "are you good" there's also a big marketability aspect for making the team because these female leagues are generally loss making prestige projects for the owners so they are highly concerned with fielding teams with streamers who will bring in a large audience with them to competitions - as a result most of the players are attractive streamers - it's actually pretty strange seeing rosters of attractive women shooting each other in esports when you compare it to the men who typically look like kuato
but having said that, despite that they focus heavily on "how big is your fan base" during roster construction which artificially deflates the amount of trans athletes on rosters, the top female players in professsional women's valorant are trans women, including the current champion
currently of top-ranked women in north america, 3 of the top 4 are trans
but sure, you shared a comment from a virtue signaling rando saying that trans woman don't dominate female esports so i guess facts don't matter and can be substituted for the opinion of a virtue signaling idiot