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Originally Posted by uke_master
What is the "meat and potatoes"? A trans woman becoming the first ever trans WIM is a complete nothing burger. Great for her. Happy for her. If you want to make a bunch of hypobolic - err "rhetorical" - screaching about trans women about to imminently take over women's chess that's on you, but I wouldn't try to frame it as us 100% agreeing.
this has already been addressed and you're just posting in bad faith
you already agreed that that we will have a trans woman at the very top of the female rankings within a decade - so backtracking now with "so what it's one woman" is dishonest as you don't even believe that yourself
the real risk here is that if we get some of the top 100 male chess players coming out as trans and then start pulling a scarlett and after competing in the top open compeitions start just cleaning house in the women's only events treating them like training sessions where they earn money - the female only events will start becoming redundant, the viewers will lose interest watching lopsided results where we already know who the winner will be beforehand and then the cisgender woman start complaining that this is unfair to them - then the sponsors are left with the very difficult position of banning trans people and being called transphobic or running the women's event where they already know who will win and receiving complaints from the women - they'll find themselves in an untenable position and go the esports route of quietly dropping the women's only events and only sponsoring for the open events
we have an esports precedent for this scarlett single-handedly killed women's only starcraft tournaments and closed off that pipeline for good - starcraft women's only tournies used to be a big deal and are now extremely rare and almost always scheduled at the same time as major events to prevent top trans esports players from double dipping but this also kills the audience because few will watch a women's only tourney for $500 when there's a $20k happening at the same time with much better players