International Chess Org: Trans Women Have "No Right To Participate" In Women's Chess
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International Chess Federation, FIDE, has released new guidelines targeting transgender players. The guidelines would strip trans men's titles, and potentially bar trans women from playing.

With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

  1. Imply the mental inferiority of women
  2. Validate the existence of transgender men
  3. Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
  4. Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    243·
    1 year ago

    Someone tell me why there is even a “womens chess” for them to insanely bar trans people from, gender doesn’t affect chess in the 1st place.

    • kabat@programming.dev
      22·
      1 year ago

      In case you don’t know - there are two categories: open and women-only. Anyone can compete in open, no matter what their gender/sex is. Women can also compete against other women only if they want. It’s definitely not like “oh you’re a woman, you can’t compete here, it’s only for men”.

      • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        But let me call myself a women so i can stop being 10th place and take 1st in women league

    • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m waiting to hear a reason that doesnt go back to some tired stereotype in the lines of “Men are smarter than women, so its not fair”.

      • mind@lemmy.world
        81·
        1 year ago

        That is their reason.

        They have a separate women’s league because almost no women would place in the open.

        It’s the same justification that’s being made in other sports, only this time it’s not muscle, it’s brains.