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International Chess Federation (FIDE) to ban and punish transgender players (www.erininthemorning.com)
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With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

  1. Imply the mental inferiority of women
  2. Validate the existence of transgender men
  3. Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
  4. Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! ๐Ÿ‘ Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

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[โ€“] zik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Men and women don't have different minds.

Chess stats don't agree with you on that. Men have a greater spread of chess ability than women. ie. the bottom end of men are significantly worse than the bottom end of women but also the top skilled men are better than the top women.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if they played together instead of separately things would change, considering how it is played and what the logic employed entails. You might not know how to deal with en passant if you've never seen it used.

[โ€“] Harrison@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

The measured pool is chess players, not random people they picked off the street.