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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€“] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chess has long had different leagues for men and women

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that doesn't make it right.

[โ€“] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never said it did. I'm answering your question. When did sexuality matter in game like chess? A very long time, because misogyny.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

I agree you never said it did. You just stated what has been happening.