Blah blah blah women must not be allowed to have anything for themselves blah blah trans blah blah blah.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) says it is temporarily banning transgender women from competing in its women’s events. The FIDE said individual cases would require “further analysis” and that a decision could take up to two years. The move has been criticised by some players and enthusiasts.
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Yosha Iglesias, a trans woman professional chess player with the FIDE rank of chess master, said the policy would lead to “unnecessary harm” for trans players and women. “This appalling situation will lead to depression and suicide attempts,” Iglesias said.
See? That’s all he’s got. Men must be allowed to take what belongs to women or they will get depressed and kill themselves. Trans “activism” should be called The Infinite Blackmail Note. Just take a hike, dude. Chess for women is by definition for women, so get lost.
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Wait. What? Excluding TiMs is going to cause harm to women? How?
Missing out on a glorious opportunity for self-sacrifice?
So the pawns being sacrificed must be cis-women?
As Captain Kirk once said “Not chess but poker”. The threat-of-suicide maneuverer is a bluff and people are calling it
It’s an easy, and lazy, argument to make that chess is played with the brain, not the genitals or the muscles therefore saying there is a need for a separate women’s category is demeaning to women. It relies on the trope of men’s brains and ladyeez brains and assumes women’s intellect is inferior to men’s.
Susan Polgar – Hall of Famer, the Winner of 4 Women’s World Chess Championships,12 Olympic Medals (5 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze), and the first woman in history to break the gender barrier in chess would like to disagree.
Polgar then goes on to address the 5 questions, pointing out how hard it is for girls to compete against aggressive males, that women’s achievements are belittled and diminished, how barriers are put in their way at every level.
When she qualified to enter the world championships, she was told she couldn’t enter because she wasn’t a man. Can’t have a girly brain showing up those muscular manly brains, can we?
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Now, why wouldn’t women want to be in a room with men like these?
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Why? What do “individual cases” have to do with it? Men aren’t women; men can’t be women. Case closed People who say this is complicated are trying to sell bullshit and allow men to continue cheating. There’d be no question of “including” adult players who “identify” as children into junior divisions. Anyone who attempted this would be laughed out of the room. But men who “identify” as women we’re required to take seriously. Why? They’re being as dishonest and worthy of ridicule as a grownup claiming to be a kid in order to play in a children’s division. But no, we’re supposed to “Be kind.” What’s to decide? Why the deliberation? I thought chess players were supposed to be smart.And as for “trans” players, they’re not being banned from playing chess, they’re just being asked to play against other men. What a bunch of whiners! I mean geez, you’d think these TiMs were cyclists or swimmers.
There, that wasn’t hard at all. You’ve just saved them two years.
“ Wait. What? Excluding TiMs is going to cause harm to women? How?”
The argument I see advanced most often by trans activists as to how excluding males harms women is that it will place undue pressure on non conforming or androgynous women, who will then be subjected to unseemly and overly personal questioning about their biological sex. Therefore, say the trans activists, it’s best for everyone if no one is ever questioned. What that argument ignores, of course, is that if society holds that questioning is beyond the pale in all circumstances such as these, then males, and predators and grifters will take over at rapid speed, and women will be able to do nothing about it.