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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! ๐Ÿ‘ Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

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[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 24 points 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 29 points 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.world 0 points 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.ml 3 points 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".

[-] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Historically, women did not feel welcome at open chess tournaments. Chess talent was seen as synonymous with intellectual brilliance, so some men would not take it well when they were beat by a woman. I like to think that this has changed, but there's probably still an element of this. Regardless, women's tournaments were set up so that women who wanted to play chess competitively would have an opportunity to do so safely and without the fear of harassment. They still exist because people still compete in them and enjoy them, so why stop?

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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