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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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[-] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did notice the invalidation of women's titles if you transitioned to male, but not if you transitioned to male. It seems like the general view is because the women's league is the easier league to achieve titles in, if you go to the "more competitive" league you then could game the system to "farm titles" or something if you transition and detransition.

The whole thing does seem a bit ridiculous as you mentioned based on my understanding of the system. The titles are clearly qualified as for a specific league, you don't lose junior league titles because you get older. Maybe this factors into elo calculations?

Either way, I appreciate the well written response. In my personal experience, the onus of trying to understand seemingly transphobic positions to potentially change them seems to fall on trans people, while allies seem more than happy to stick to the shouting and protesting. I had mentioned a point from a trans women who felt the discourse around pronouns was counter productive in her view, and someone immediately jumped to the defense of his partner who wasn't there before I could finish the sentence.

this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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