Chess league rn
Dude is Seto Kaiba of Kaiba Corp.
They got that Bobby Fischer mentality
“We have to make sure that cis women don’t play against anyone other than cis women, because we’re pretty sure cis women aren’t as good at chess as anyone else”
German chess association just boycotts this
For anyone willing to read the official position (you can translate it with firefox or others if you can’t read german): https://www.schachbund.de/news/erklaerung-des-dsb-zur-von-der-fide-erlassenen-regelung-zur-registrierung-von-transgender-schachspieler-innen.html
They are just in a big tournament in Qatar. Bet that restrictions are there to get that sweet money.
Well. That & gay stuff in Qatar. Might end up dead in a ditch.
Learning that about Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments just brought the biggest smile to my face! It should be an obvious no-brainer that if somebody’s going out of their way to be an asshole and antagonize people, they should no longer be allowed to participate!
If you can’t play nice, other people aren’t going to want to play with you. We learn that as little tiny babies! I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to grasp. But for some people, you bring gender into it, especially non-cis genders, and it’s like logic just goes out the window and is overridden by weird bigotry that helps no one.
Here’s a good link going over the ‘why’ being discussed: tl;dr sexism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16078055.2022.2051068
we’re just trying to address the way that cis women are disadvantaged in chess due to centuries of misogyny in the sport. We’re not anti trans, we just can’t have cis men pretending to be trans in order to further themselves in competition.
Okay, not a fan of how you’re going about it but I can understand your goals at least
We’ll be stripping titles from trans men who competed as women and then came out later
Ah, there it is. You never have to look too far into efforts to “protect women” to see where it’s really just about hurting trans people because you can.
Why is the chess assotioation such big abbies anyway? That’s just pretty f*cking stupid. Yu-Gi-Oh on the other hand, despite being a card game partially meant for kids, are way more mature than a sport considereded “proffesional”
I find it bizarre that it’s 2023 and not only is chess still gender-segregated but they’re doubling down on it. It makes sense for physical sports, but chess? Really?
Y’all just scared the girls are gonna wipe the board with you.
I can’t imagine you’ve seen the numbers. Currently the number of fide grand masters totals 1772 men and 41 women. At the rank below, international masters, the numbers are 3893 men and 134 women.
If you were to simply remove titles exclusive to women tomorrow, you would be barring many more women from ever being able to call themselves ‘champion’. How do you imagine that would impact young girls’ willingness to dedicate themselves to the game?
Remember that even if men are at an advantage for strictly cultural reasons (being more encouraged to play the game) that still means they have an advantage.
You may have proven that men have an advantage in the average case due to inherent misogyny but that doesn’t prove that any one particular trans woman has any sort of advantage over the field of cis women. Where is this army of mtf chess players storming the women’s ranks? Why do we have to solve every problem the majority can think of before we’re allowed to solve problems minorities are actually living through?
