“Never believe that [transphobes] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [transphobes] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

Anti-trans sports rhetoric is especially ridiculous in the case of chess and darts, and can hopefully be used by trans activists to inoculate people against gender fascism. You really cannot get better evidence that sport terfs simply want to exclude trans people from all of social life. These stories lay this bare. Of course the transphobes are so high on their own fascist gender ideology that they don't recognize they're making a strategic mistake by fighting these specific battles. Usually the cis will play along with them, but eventually it just becomes too ridiculous to take seriously unless you've completely succumbed to their ideology.