Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women’s World Cup after trans women were banned.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, this is infuriating.

    I did Karate for a decade, went to a number of tournaments, and I’m a giant gamer dork.

    Yes, in combat sports, there are legitimate arguments one can make that defining some kind of category delineation based on bone/muscle density from your biology makes roughly as much sense as weight classes… though I can say that only time I have ever been actually, fully KO’d was from a woman, roughly the same age/weight as myself, landing a roundhouse kick directly on my temple (side of my head).

    But… keyboard combat? No. Makes no fucking sense at all.