Wow turns out I’m an incredible athlete, unfairly attractive, AND fantastic at chess?
Cool.
[2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions
Submitted 1 week ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’m incredibly mid at chess. Is it because i’m nonbinary? 🤔
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Oooh good question, have you tried playing with gray pieces on a gray board?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Unfairly attractive? What’s that in reference to?
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
A lot of beauty contests have started banning trans women after one of us came second in some bfe pageant.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Why is there even gendered chess?
ZeroCool@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I mean, it’s not a mystery. Men decided women shouldn’t be allowed to compete against them. That’s why.
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
No they got rid men-only tournaments in the 1980s. Women can enter “men’s” (now called open) tournaments now, just not the other way around. Women’s tournaments exists because open tournaments are still almost entirely male events and male chessplayers are just like any other males. So they want to encourage women to play chess by giving them a way to stay away from us while they play. It’s understandable imho.
US Chess (the US federation) allows trans players in women’s tournaments with the rule that you can only transition once (details: new.uschess.org/…/us-chess-transgender-policy.pdf ). I think that FIDE (the international federation) that doesn’t allow MTF in women’s events. The biggest chess country is still Russia and so Russia has a big influence on FIDE policy and the FIDE president (Arkady Dvorkovich) is from there. So you can’t really blame this one on Trump if you have a problem with it. Maybe talk to Putin.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
[citation needed]
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Asking the real questions here