With these new rules, FIDE has managed to
- Imply the mental inferiority of women
- Validate the existence of transgender men
- Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
- Call transgender women men
Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.
Ah here we fucking go again… 20 years of progress lost.
Chess and eSports always do that. They’re the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how, if you work on the social pressures and limitations that keep women/queer/trans people away from the sport, they can absolutely join in, compete, influence younger people, attract advertisers and so on. They can bypass the “bUt PhYsiCal DiffEnCeS” argument entirely, they’re the perfect category for inclusive sports.
But without fail, after we get some progress, they come up with some way of absolutely setting everything back with new weird regulations, changes in funding, changes in language. It’s bizarre. It’s self sabotage.
Anyone can play in the ‘men’ category, since it’s actually just ‘open’. The women’s category is the one that’s exclusionary, and where you can’t participate if you’re trans.
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Just adding that what’s happening here is a naked attempt at excluding trans women from what are believed to be ‘women’s spaces’, and that nobody’s even bothering to pretend it’s about differences in capability anymore.