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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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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€“] 29 points 3 years ago (11 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 36 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Chess has long had different leagues for men and women

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but that doesn't make it right.

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