The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

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    1 year ago

    Ugh, why do they feel the need to even write these rules in the first place? I can almost guarantee you there’s like, five trans people who are even registered to play chess. Why go to so much effort to block such a fraction of a percent of people anyways?

    Whenever I read articles like these, I substitute “trans” for a different minority, such as a racial or ethnic minority, and it really puts it in perspective.

    I remember when Utah made a huge deal about it in women’s sports. And someone like the Utah governor was against it, saying he’d never seen so much hate around something so little. He told his colleagues that in the entire state, only four trans youth were even playing registered sports, and most were JV, not even going to competitions. It’s sad to see people so stoked by hate for something so…mundane. :/

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      1 year ago

      Because Amy Scnider now owns all the women’s jeopardy records?

      Take what you want from that, I don’t really have an opinion on trans people in pure intellectual competitions.

  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    What? Is this real? Are the men and women not competing together? It is not a physical competition. Why the separation?

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      1 year ago

      Currently, the top women don’t come close to the top men. Considering how few female chess players are in comparison, it’s not a surprise.

      Having a women’s league means you can have chess news about women’s tournaments and champs and give them some visibility.

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        Currently, the top women don’t come close to the top men

        because they’re excluded at all levels, lets not pretend it’s because women aren’t as good and need “protecting” from the “superior” men.

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          That doesn’t make any sense.

          Yes, they don’t compete with men, but they still have women’s league and women from that league don’t come close to men (not all, ofcourse).

          Could making united league deter women even more? Very possible.

          I am not against, but still I think a strong bump in women’s chess league with marketing, money, better condition would be great, before possible merging.

          Currently, women would just suffer with results for long time.

          Unfortunately Chess doesn’t seem as healthy and open for that, and that is just sad.

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            1 year ago

            I feel like if you really wanted to know you could easily look up the barriers that women face in chess (and in all sports), and I honestly don’t feel like spoon feeding you such basics, so I’m going to just paste my other reply here and leave it up to you to start educating yourself if you really want to:

            The solution to men harassing women (and generally making them unwelcome, as they do) should not be to segregate women though, it should be to discipline men.
            Which leads me to the real reason why women are segregated (because clearly isn’t about their safety or their inclusion) - because the men involved would have an absolute breakdown if they were beaten by a woman (not a problem exclusive to chess, either).

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    And they also made it so trans men have to give up any women’s titles they’ve earned. So, they simultaneously think trans men are men, but trans women are not women.

    If anything, based on the past comments of the head of the organization, they have a position that’s generally “women are dumber than men and we want to make decisions that align with that ethos always”.