551
submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 90 points 1 year ago

Chess got an open class and a female class. The latter is there to provide a safer environment for girls and hopefully encourage more to try out the sport.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do girls need a safe environment when playing with boys?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 year ago

Because as we've proven times and times again when in presence of women, we're a bunch of morons that can't treat them with the respect they deserve.

[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Men can be nasty and intimidating towards women as history have shown a million times. Add in the fact you have a lot of "old fashioned" men in the sport that may not be up to date on how you should behave in the third millennium. If you want to grow the sport, you need to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for everyone. Tournaments exclusive to girls is one way build towards that.

[-] wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago

This is the first comment that made me understand why separate competitions are requires. Thank you.

[-] cadekat@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago

Set a code of conduct and ban people who misbehave. Might lose some top players, but it'd be better for everyone else.

[-] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 28 points 1 year ago

I mean, the real answer is that chess is full of toxic people who've made it to the top to run the organization. The fact that this behavior wasn't curtailed already shows that. Its just an accepted part of it. If the ones who would make the decision to ban those players don't already see an issue they're not going to start now to make the space better for women.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nerdy men playing a board game are intidimating? How do women even get anything in life done of they are this fragile? WTF? Do you also want separate women-only schools, and women-only companies?

[-] Stanwich@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck. Stereotype often?

[-] TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to grow the sport, you need to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

Hm. In addition to a welcoming environment it might be fun to have a 'cutthroat' class with an opposite approach where intimidation, bullying, and over-the-top shit-talking is encouraged. They could have competitors come out in like pro-wrestling gear or something and have a stare-down at the beginning of the match.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Because they want one? Why are there woman only gyms?

this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
551 points (100.0% liked)

World News

39395 readers
1790 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS