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FIDE, the international governing body for chess, is a shit, utterly corrupt organization that has been captured by Russia for years. The French chess federation, Canada, and even the USA have actually been supportive of trans players.
You misunderstood.
Fide doesn’t consider transwomen women. So transwomen have to play in the open tournaments (not men’s), and not in women’s.
The fun part, is that if you’re a transman, Fide doesn’t consider you a woman either. So you also must compete only in open tournaments (not men’s) and you can’t keep your women’s titles like WGM and WIM.
There are no male only tournaments.
If a transman detransitions, then they count as a woman again, and can have their women’s titles.
You’d think they’d be consistent, but no.
Why does CHESS have segregated leagues? I’d understand chess boxing of course, but regular chess?
Because sexism
Obviously not every gender is as intelligent as the superior one
“Because sexism” is correct, but for entirely the opposite reason of what you seem to be suggesting.
There’s no men’s league, only a women’s and an open. The women’s doesn’t exist because women can’t compete against the men, but because very many of them don’t want to. The women’s division is about providing a safer space for women to compete comfortably, to encourage more women into playing chess.
I should probably add, this is also exactly why it’s so absurd to ban trans women from competing in this division.
I do HEMA, a combat sport where physical differences actually do matter to some extent, very much unlike chess. But here in Australia, most tournaments don’t have a women’s division. They have an open division and an “under-represented genders” division. They don’t just “allow” trans women to compete, they openly encourage trans women, trans men, and enbies to participate. Anyone other than cis men. And the case for doing that in chess is so much stronger.
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trans woman is 2 words btw (in the same way you(hopefully) wouldn’t say blackman or gaywoman)
Lol blackman and gaywoman sounds like really bad superhero names a conservative would come up with to make fun of hollywood
i was gonna joke about “typa shit americans and south africans are named” but no it’s just straight up an english surname: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackman
I have no words.
By the way, please avoid the use of “transwoman” and “transman”. Saying “transman” implies that someone isn’t a real man, but instead something different. However, “trans” is an adjective, a descriptor, so saying that someone is a “trans man” is good, because they’re a man who happens to be trans.
I prefer the terms “transmasc” and “transfem” for that reason.
What are we saying now?
“trans women” and “trans men”, with the space. trans is an adjective, like tall or smart. you wouldn’t say tallmen or smartwomen in one word either.
