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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)

submitted 1 year ago by iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

Imply the mental inferiority of women
Validate the existence of transgender men
Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
Call transgender women men

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

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[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

It's fucking chess, a game of the mind. What possible relevance could being transgender have to a game of chess?

CHESS?!

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

When did sexuality mattered in a game of chess? Like do trans people get a buff at thinking or something?

[-] janWilejan@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

The men can only move 1 square in any direction, while women can move anywhere on their row/column/diagonal. Clearly this biological difference is why they have separate men's and women's chess tournaments. Also, I hear trans people can double jump.

[-] SwagaliciousSR@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Damm double-jumping trannies coming to take my fish.

[-] wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

women can move anywhere on their row/column/diagonal

Not all of them. Pawns are women, too, because they can be promoted to queens but not to kings. They can also be promoted to bishops, which means that women are accepted into clergy by chess' church.