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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players

www.erininthemorning.com International Chess Org: Trans Women Have "No Right To Participate" In Women's Chess

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

Imply the mental inferiority of women
Validate the existence of transgender men
Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

sports @hexbear.net

International Chess Org: Trans Women Have "No Right To Participate" In Women's Chess

www.erininthemorning.com /p/international-chess-org-trans-women

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It's fucking chess, a game of the mind. What possible relevance could being transgender have to a game of chess?
CHESS?!
- When did sexuality mattered in a game of chess? Like do trans people get a buff at thinking or something?
  
  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.
  
  Damm double-jumping removed coming to take my fish.
  
  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.
  
  The king also is a queen so that's not fair
  
  Men automatically get a +10 masculity buff. It's widely considered an overpowred stat in chess.
  
  Stroking your beard also gives a +2 intelligence boost
  
  Chess has long had different leagues for men and women
  
  Yeah, but that doesn't make it right.
  
  Never said it did. I'm answering your question. When did sexuality matter in game like chess? A very long time, because misogyny.
  
  I agree you never said it did. You just stated what has been happening.

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