Tanukana Discusses Transgender Issues in E-Sports Tournaments on Twitch

On November 15th, former professional gamer and female streamer Tanukana (10,000 subscribers) did a Twitch stream where she explained about transgender issues in e-sports tournaments. Transgender player “shoots a corpse” in the women’s division tournament

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Because transgender players have been ranked highly in the individual rankings of the tournament, and because mibr, which has two transgender players, showed overwhelming strength against zeta, which is made up entirely of women, some have expressed the view that the participation of transgender players in the women’s tournament may undermine the fairness of the competition. “It’s a lie that there is no gender difference in games”
Tanukana explains about SRN and another MIBR transgender player, “They’re physically male and like women, but their gender identity is female, what are you even saying?” In response to the comment “That’s manly,” he replied in exasperation, “Well, I guess I am a man.” In light of this recent commotion, Tanukana said, “Well, I guess… “It’s a lie that there’s no difference between men and women when it comes to games,” he said in his personal opinion. “There are (gender differences), but they’re ignored. Females, in their basic mentality, definitely have the instinct to avoid fighting and not want to go to places where there is fighting. “Maybe some women have a weaker sense of this, but as a basic characteristic, women tend to avoid fighting,” he said. She explained her opinion that women are generally not good at “having to win under pressure.” Regarding the two transgender wrestlers belonging to mibr,
“They’re two pieces of trash who couldn’t win in the men’s industry so they threw away their pride and entered the women’s world, so they don’t care what they lose anymore, so they can go and win roughly and aggressively. But that’s not the case with Zeta, he’s carrying the weight of the team on his shoulders,” he said, strongly criticizing the move. Viewers of the stream have commented, “I feel like there are differences in things like reflexes and dynamic visual acuity,” “But then again, neither the male participants nor the corpse could read the atmosphere,” and “They really need to distinguish them based on physical ability…” Read the full story at the source.

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