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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€“] abraxas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I recently watched Lance Armstrong go off on a silly survival TV show about how trans folk should not be allowed in men/women's sports and try to defend it with a truly pointless argument of "unless there's overwhelming proof" bullshit.

He almost got voted off the show for that rant alone. If it weren't on Fox, he would have.

[โ€“] darq@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The last person I want to hear from about fairness in sports is Lance Armstrong. Bloody hell, lol

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

No shit. Especially on a silly celeb survival show hosted by Will Shatner.