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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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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they also made it so trans men have to give up any women's titles they've earned. So, they simultaneously think trans men are men, but trans women are not women.

If anything, based on the past comments of the head of the organization, they have a position that's generally "women are dumber than men and we want to make decisions that align with that ethos always".

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've stopped being surprised by chess dorks after it came out that America's Champion, Bobby Fischer, our Hope Against The Commie Gameplaying Menace was literally a neo-Nazi and not subtle about it.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Holy crap that was a wild read. Jewish Mother but a Holocaust denier. Died in exile in Iceland while evading criminal deportation to the US. I had this vague memory that he was an asshole but I had no idea.

[–] ours@lemmy.film 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America supporting fascists, because they are anti-communist, has looooong history.

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascists 🤝 Capitalists

At least for the first stage of the tumour.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It might have evolved, but Mussolini's fascists initially made their money being hired thugs for the wealthy and industrialists who wanted to directly attack and scupper organising workers.

Similar in Nazi Germany with the Brownshirts iirc.

I guess under Neoliberalism you can kind of just skip the street gangs and use cops to attack unionists, so it's a different set of material conditions these days but the patterns are there.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm more partial to Kasparov myself.

[–] Smk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

He also had schizophrenia, most probably.