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Ellen Adele Harper's avatar

This is truly wonderful. The Queen’s Gambit of the trans world.

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Leah Abram's avatar

Congratulations to her! I hope she becomes a grandmaster!

I *do* hope she is a good person in a sport known for having assholes as grandmasters (e.g. Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov).

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Erin Reed's avatar

She very much is

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Leah Abram's avatar

That's awesome to hear! I wish her nothing but the best!

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Dana's avatar

Segregation of men from women in chess is nonsense unless it is simply to give women less tournament money. This would be a good SNL skit given how ridiculous this is.

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Leah Abram's avatar

Charlotte Clymer sheds light as to why there is gender segregation in Chess: It's because the Men are sexist douchebags and the women aren't safe and they need opportunity. If it weren't for the men, there would be no need for the segregation: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/banning-trans-women-from-chess-tournaments

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Richard Gadsden's avatar

This is genuinely inspiring. WIM is really hard to achieve - you have to reach a certain (very high) overall standard of chess (measured by getting a rating of 2200; your rating goes up and down every game depending on who you play and whether you win, lose or draw) and you also have to have very strong results (called "norms") in three tournaments, which means beating players that already have the title that you want, and also scoring a high number of points (exactly how many depends on how good your opponents were).

Yosha's final norm required her to get 6.5 points from nine games; she managed that with five wins and three draws, getting there with a game to spare. She also won the tournament!

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Kim Harrod's avatar

So inspiring - bravo Yosha!

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Chastity White Rose's avatar

I am also very proud of Yosha. It's definitely important to make sure that trans people are not excluded from the same opportunities as everyone else.

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Jackie's avatar

Brilliant!

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Jessi Phoenix's avatar

Awesome

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Kayla's avatar

Congratulations Yosha on your well deserved accomplishment! :) We are grateful for you and your tenacity in fighting and standing up for our rights and the ever growing list of injustices in the world!!!

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GhostoftheWhiteRose's avatar

So nice to hear this great news for a change! Congrats to her!

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Vanessa Schmithorst's avatar

Awesome!

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Cole's avatar

Congrats to her! Inspirational.

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