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.

  • zik@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 year ago

    you think people who are biologically male have an advantage in mental only competition

    They do. There are two types of chess competition: open and women only. Women don’t do well in the open competition which is why they added the women only competition.

    But it’s not because men on average have an advantage. It’s because men have a greater spread of chess ability so the very top men tend to do better than the top women.

    • Braysl@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Something to keep in mind with studies are outside social factors such as less women playing chess and less women being exposed to chess at a young age. There are fewer women in chess and fewer girls learning chess, for probably centuries. This will have a factor when comparing two demographics.