Chess "is diverse and inclusive," the German Chess Federation said in rejecting calls for a ban on trans competitors.

Chess “is diverse and inclusive,” the German Chess Federation said in rejecting calls for a ban on trans competitors.

  • arinEnglish
    38·
    1 year ago

    Germany’s under-18 girls’ chess championship. They made a safe space to exclude boys so girls are encouraged to compete. Trans can compete in the open tournaments where no one is excluded

    • Octoham
      161·
      1 year ago

      maybe trans girls should have that safe space too?

      • arinEnglish
        27·
        1 year ago

        I agree but how many trans girls interested in chess are there in Germany to host a tournament ?

        • DarthFreyr
          131·
          1 year ago

          What reason, aside from unnecessary learned reactions or outright bigotry, would there be to separate chess by trans and cis? Deliberately separating trans girls from cis girls without some fundamentally necessary reason would be trans denialism or erasure, and trying to hide behind deliberately misinterpreting the suggestion would be a very cowardly form of discourse, so you may want to make your intent more clear if that’s not what you were doing.