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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€“] randon31415@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are too many women in chess after the popularity of the queen gambit, said FIDE. What can we do or say to get them go away?

Really, what is the nationality of the FIDE leadership? Are they Russia? I remember a lot of famous Russians playing.

[โ€“] First@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Yes the current leader is a generic russian politician/stooge, but the previous leader was a real firecracker! He claimed to have been abducted by aliens and to have visited their planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov

[โ€“] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

FIDE banned Russians though