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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)
submitted 1 year ago by iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 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€“] negativenull@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, Fuck FIDE

Given the current FIDE president is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Dvorkovich

It's not much of a surprise.

[โ€“] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does he have a history of conservative nonsense or something?

[โ€“] negativenull@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a hard-core insider in Russian Politics. He was the Deputy Prim Minister under Dmitry Medvedev for years. He's been heavily involved in Moscow politics for years.

[โ€“] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well Russia's recent push to make the lives of trans people worse has been after he left politics so I don't really get the connection.

[โ€“] Perfide@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Russia has always tried to make the lives of trans people worse. It's not remotely new, it's just more prioritized now.