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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€“] Tetra@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yikes... That's fucking gross.
Hopefully there's some kind of backlash from chess players and community figures, this is absolutely vile.

Honestly lately I'm kinda just losing hope in humanity, and wondering if LGBT folks will ever be accepted in society. Seeing what little progress we acquired over the past century or so be undone so easily is crushing.

Fuck FIDE, fuck Russia, and fuck all the ignorant, hateful bigots that keep fighting against people's very right to exist.

[โ€“] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK why you're singling out Russia. I doubt the president has dictatorial control over this, and the council has members from all over the world. The whole org seems to be captured by reactionaries. Did the Russian chess federation spearhead this or something?