Transwomen in bridge

[mikestar13]

I think that the framing of Cyberyeti's questions strongly implies that this is not th case

 

(Initially) there was no discussion about how players or members of the team identified.

 

Rather, Cyberyeti framed this as "Here's a group of players that aren't good enough to win Open evens who are now considering entering Women's events instead"

Perhaps this is simply poorly worded, but this strikes me as off

 

A much less loaded way to frame this question would have been

 

"Should a woman who transitioned from male to female now be allowed to compete in women's events?"

 

I was referring to the actual UK player Cyberyeti cites, not to his hypothetical team of men dressing as women.

 

[Vampyr]

No I was not mocking it, in the UK we have one good but not quite absolutely top flight male player to whom this could apply. I don't know how he identifies, but he has turned up at tournaments in dresses with painted nails and make up for years.

 

I was suggesting that if we identified as female this was a real documented thing (and it's not going to happen), not that I turned up in a beard and a dress.

 

A couple of years ago at a European tournament she was on our team and we were not permitted to play in the mixed teams because the rules there require two mixed pairs, rather than at least one man and at least one woman on each team. The player in question did not contest the point, but I believe that she does identify as female.

[pescetom]

1/3 actually shows that the distribution is not random. If there were no bias (in the data, not personally - the bias could come from a number of sources), it should be 25% MM, 50% MF/FM, 25% FF.

 

A 33-33-33 distribution could be (for example) due to about 1/3 of men and 1/3 of women only choosing partners of their own gender and the rest choosing randomly.

 

For whatever reason, it shows that people are twice as likely to be in a same gender pair than to be in a mixed pair, so far from random I agree.