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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.

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[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

TIL: Chess had separate things for genders.

Weird...

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The sexist assholes were driving away women, so the separate league was to allow women to compete without (or with less) hostility.

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just don't understand this shit but it seems to happen with all sorts of games: Why the fuck do people care what gender players have? Like, why!? Just play the game and stop worrying about other people. Damn.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It isn't a game specific issue. It is a general social problem that is easier to observe in sports because of the historical exclusion of women from most high profile sports.

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's a pretty good observation.

[-] lapes@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

There open and women so it's not exactly separate

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I understand your sentence, could you explain a little more?

Woman are allowed to participate in the open league, but there is also a seperate woman-only league

[-] jerome@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They don't want the chess geeks to jizz their pants. /s

[-] transistor@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago

Isn't this sexist ?

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