@keyboardworrier @futurebird a Not certain only because they typically don’t want women working at all. If we work, we show that we are equal to and maybe even superior than they are, and they don’t like that. Part of the targeting of trans people and other forms of bigotry is the not-very-hidden message of “and this could happen to you if you don’t do what we say.” And we know that because of the “First they came for…” quote. 1/
@keyboardworrier @futurebird For chess, it’s got the unwritten message of “Do not ask to play against men or we will strip you of everything you’ve worked to achieve.” The same type of people leading the bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans people are the same that deny a right to abortion for women are the same that are banning CRT being taught. “You’ve gone too far so we’re now putting you back in your place” is the message. :/ 2/2
@queenofnewyork @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space @futurebird Not really – most chess tournaments are just "open", no gender. Women can play against men without forfeiting their other titles.
@ech @keyboardworrier @futurebird For now. Can play against men in open play for now. That's what the unspoken part is. Maybe you don't mean it that way. But clearly the people in charge do. This is how the white patriarchy works. If you're not a white, cishet male, you are present only on sufferance, and that can be revoked at any time. Any deviance from the carefully stratified layers of society results in targeted abuse that is also a warning to the others not to get too uppity.
@queenofnewyork @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space @futurebird Strictly about this specific prediction, I really don't see that happening: a chess tournament open to everyone, male or female, as long as they're not trans? (In some sports it sort of happens indirectly – trans men can compete with cis men usually *unless* they're using hormone treatments, for example.)
@futurebird @keyboardworrier @ech … in a society that has a vocal minority trying and succeeding to drag us backwards on social justice, because they have decided we got too much freedom, and that threatens them.
I’d love to be wrong, but in a post-Roe world? I am not willing to risk it. 2/2
@queenofnewyork @futurebird @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space Well, I won't say "never" – you make a good point that anything's possible.
But one thing to consider about those examples is that major political movements have been trying to undo affirmative action and make abortion illegal for a very long time, and they've been very explicit about it the whole time.
"Keep trans people out of an activity (like chess) open to only non-trans" is really not what I'm hearing anyone saying these days – it's not just that people are lobbying for that but have no political power to speak of.
In that sense, at least, this would be different from those examples.
@futurebird @keyboardworrier @ech I get you don’t see it happening. Many people thought Roe V Wade wouldn’t be overturned. Nor affirmative action. They didn’t see such a step backward in rights being a thing that would happen. Yet here we are. The people taking these steps do not see them as rights, but as privileges that can be revoked. Before saying “it could never happen,” try understanding why people are saying it could. Because we live… 1/