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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)
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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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[โ€“] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

[โ€“] kabat@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

[โ€“] 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

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