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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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I really wish posts like this included more interesting discussion, instead of 90 % of people just white knighting how shocked they are and how awful this is!
Yea we get it after the first comment, you don't need to post the same shit over and over.
My personal genuine question is to women, how they feel about transgender women in their sports? For physical sports I'd imagine it matters even more.
Chess is just a brain game so it really shouldn't matter at all, but I'd still love to womens opinion on the subject.
Woman here, and genuinely, I don't know what's right.
I can recognise that m>f after puberty gives someone a strength advantage but at the same time it's hard enough having to transition without feeling even more marginalised by being banned from sports.
Maybe there needs to be just a women's and open category to recognise the strength handicap that cis women have for certain activities and allow anyone to compete in open, but then there's the challenge of prize money, viewers etc etc between the two that also needs to be managed appropriately.
At the end of the day, someone isn't going to be happy and for that there is no good solution, but we need to be doing our best for cis and trans athletes to make sure everyone has a chance to compete in the sports they live.
Chess? Banning trans competitors is fucking idiotic and the chess federation can fuck right off with that implied notion of women being less capable.
In most sports the men's group is technically open. Most women just don't succeed because of the sheer difference in physicality.