The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Didn’t even know there were separate women’s tournaments. Don’t really see the point, honestly, chess isn’t like Greco-Roman wrestling or something where the gender disparity is pretty significant.

    But, whatever. On the whole this strikes me as an actually reasonable compromise, so long as they do remain willing to conduct these investigations and reassignments without too much feet-dragging.

    • BiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      analysis of individual cases that could take up to two years.

      They are already getting ready to drag their feet. The other policies announced here aren’t much better. In particular:

      Holders of women’s titles who change their genders to male would see those titles “abolished,” the federation said

      There’s no reason for that. What does transitioning have to do with past titles. It all reeks of transphobia.

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      I don’t really agree here, as a trans women myself I face issues like sexism just as cis women do, and depending on how well a trans women passes she might face additional issues with transphobia. Chess is a sport of strategy and there is no science that somehow suggest AMAB people have more brain power than AFAB people.

    • BoneDemonBoofer@lemmygrad.ml
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      In what world is this a reasonable compromise? Your second paragraph also directly contradicts your first paragraph. You don’t see why there are gender based divisions, but also we should reinforce those divisions and in addition force transwomen to submit to "gender investigations? "

      I’m just baffled tbh.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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        I was assuming the previous position was an outright ban. I don’t actually know for sure if that was the case though, now that I think about it.

        A compromise involves something imperfect for both. If either side got exactly what they wanted, it would not be a compromise.