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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€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe if they played together instead of separately things would change, considering how it is played and what the logic employed entails. You might not know how to deal with en passant if you've never seen it used.

[โ€“] Harrison@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

The measured pool is chess players, not random people they picked off the street.

[โ€“] zik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The standard chess competition is "open" so they do play together.