It's quite astonishing that FIDE managed to be not only transphobic but also sexist and idiotic at the same time.
Almost deserves a medal
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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That's the thing about stupidity, it has a lot of comorbidities.
Let’s not discount how many smart/educated bigots there are. Many members of the GOP in the US went to an Ivy League school and are smart in their own right. They aren’t all ignorant, many are just bad people.
I agree but also school doesnt exactly indicate smartness.
Never said that lol I met plenty of dumbasses in undergrad
Transphobia is sexism.
And sexism is idiotic.
Chess and sexism go hand in hand like Bobby Fischer and antisemitism.
Does anyone know the bs reasons they gave to ban trans women? I don't understand how one of the least by gender divisible games pulled that off.
FIDE probably thinks women are dumber than men. I don't see any other reason
That's basically what they said. They also claimed that women have less stamina than men, so aren't up to the long games of chess that men play.
Maybe they fear trans women's ability to cheat using vibrating anal beads?
Bingo, people are going to make some argument about how it's because they do it to offer women fair opportunities but the real answer is that they think women are stupid or at the very least that men are smarter, realistically they think both.
One too many.
This is so sexist. Sexism is wrong, ~~and being wrong is for women~~