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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not enough people to make a meaningful category tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Point is more categories are required now. Leave cis women as category then make other categories like open for all, trans people, people that identifies with the female gender, etc. Sure some categories might not have many competitors, but this way eveyone can play in the categories they feel comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The problem is that the way sports is funded is through competition and you can't have competition without competitors. Small categories are inefficient and will be removed as a business decision. Also it's kind of meaningless to say "I'm the best in X category" when there are 3 people in that category.