This has mostly been reported as "trans women banned from women's chess" but it's much more sinister. (as if it weren't already.)
ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
If you play or know anyone who does take a stand on this. It's ugly.
This news has caused some people to ask why "women's chess" even exists -- women can compete in the open tournament. The women's competitions were a recognition of just how far behind chess is when it comes to cultivating and welcoming female players.
Not that shocking they are even more far behind when it comes to even knowing what that would mean. (Not trans women.)
But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in the game.
@futurebird Well, the only reason for segregating different player groups, in this case bei sex/gender, is to protect the weaker one. With chess being a purely intellectual thing, this means that FIDE is of the opinion that sex makes a significant difference, intellectually.
In my opinion, this is a real double whammy: You see at first look that it's anti-trans, but on closer inspection it's also one of the most extremely anti-women things I've seen in recent times... Infuriating to the max.
this documentary https://youtu.be/tiJVJ5QRRUE shows that there are differences between the mind of a male and a woman. So there can be a different attitude toward chess.
Only for "introducing an information". I have no clear answer about how to make distinctions in sports between different genders.
@mzan @zappes @futurebird The doc does not “show” any such thing. It makes a claim. There is no support from such claim to something as specific as playing chess.
yes, I partially agree, but chess is a rather logical and systematic game, so I expect that there are more boys interested to it, respect girls, for the reasons explained in the documentary.
For being a top-level player, you had to study a lot of time, in a very focused way. Usually there are more men that women loving to do one single thing to a maniac and extreme level. In another documentary, they show that the mean man and woman have the same IQ, but, there are more dumb man, and more genius man respect dumb and genius women. The nature experiments more with men, respect women.
I'm not saying that women are less intelligent than men, or that there cannot be a women playing chess like a top 10 man player. I'm only saying that it is more likely a chess player is a male, and that the top 10 player is a man.
I don't know if this is enough for creating distinct sex categories in chess, but there is for sure a statistical measurable difference.
@mzan @zappes @futurebird except much of that difference is socialized, and babies are socialized as their assigned gender right from the beginning. Even my parents, who believed in not emphasizing gender between their children (unisex clothing and toys) greeted my birth with all the girly things.