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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] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In case you don't know - there are two categories: open and women-only. Anyone can compete in open, no matter what their gender/sex is. Women can also compete against other women only if they want. It's definitely not like "oh you're a woman, you can't compete here, it's only for men".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

But let me call myself a women so i can stop being 10th place and take 1st in women league