Post AYrhsKLcsXmPrZ3OG8 by Bugaboo@c.im
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(DIR) Post #AYqCKWE0vCnH7Hvr4C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:35:03Z
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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.https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/international-chess-org-trans-women?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AYqCKY7LsweYzCpYxc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:39:38Z
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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. (eg not excluding trans women.) But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in their games.
(DIR) Post #AYqksnXcRZOF6pcTIm by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-08-18T08:44:26.110642Z
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@futurebirdWhy is there such thing as "women's chess" in the first place?! 🙄
(DIR) Post #AYr1NT85yxi22zKOTg by Pantangelini@noagendasocial.com
2023-08-18T11:47:01Z
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@futurebird perhaps trans people should have thought of that before they let a segment of their identity group be obnoxious unreasonable intolerable groomer assholes for the past few years without disavowing them.
(DIR) Post #AYr1PwuyCWiL0sN5Oq by zappes@mastodon.online
2023-08-18T07:26:15Z
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@futurebird Well, the only reason for segregating different player groups, in this case by 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.
(DIR) Post #AYr1PxkN7PpZaIQ8WG by mzan@qoto.org
2023-08-18T08:11:34Z
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@zappes 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.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYr2MELpXhytsRj3NQ by Aedius@lavraievie.social
2023-08-18T06:43:29Z
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@futurebird It's time to ban the chess from our mind.
(DIR) Post #AYr2MFCIOdwsVAGx9c by AUc34pg7Dq80K0xUzQ.spitfire@poster.place
2023-08-18T12:00:17.729048Z
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@Aedius @futurebird Chess is a thinking man's game, not for women or shemales.
(DIR) Post #AYr6Bsg9fEvLaCYKeG by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-08-18T12:43:17.179712Z
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@futurebird Trans people are an abomination :trannycide2:
(DIR) Post #AYr74hZydMbn5KntQ0 by DireGoy@poa.st
2023-08-18T12:53:11.778551Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYr7jifZU95cL5ylhA by sargoysmuck@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:00:36.595427Z
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@futurebird Based.
(DIR) Post #AYr7r3KN4rU6R6YlJw by RamenMurdoch96@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:00:39.834309Z
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@futurebird Keep on keepin on, girl.We're rooting for you💅
(DIR) Post #AYr7uFSiPxo6wJzDoe by Eiswald@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:02:29.891329Z
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@RamenMurdoch96 @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYr7vjahsurefkQu2q by Eiswald@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:02:46.890355Z
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@RamenMurdoch96 @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYr84vDM2SrvKNtImW by bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club
2023-08-18T13:04:19.976551Z
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@futurebird>its uglyYOURE UGLY
(DIR) Post #AYr88tu4r3DCQ7ltWi by RamenMurdoch96@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:03:50.090565Z
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@Eiswald @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYr8EOUgY0W6k7Vvn6 by Mykse@poa.st
2023-08-18T13:06:09.208000Z
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@futurebird Awesome
(DIR) Post #AYr8T1sotbkIxcmVpg by get@glee.li
2023-08-18T13:08:44.801408Z
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@SoyMagnus @futurebird cc @pernia @bot @meso @meso
(DIR) Post #AYr90cm6kp3iw0f440 by michaelgemar@mstdn.ca
2023-08-18T01:44:02Z
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@futurebird It’s really shocking to me that the game that is supposed to be purely mental has such ridiculous physical prejudices in its governing bodies.
(DIR) Post #AYr90dkj7RY3y11TY8 by not2b@sfba.social
2023-08-18T01:56:04Z
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@michaelgemar @futurebird It seems the game is still dominated by Russians and they are militantly chauvinist and anti LGBT, even more so these days.
(DIR) Post #AYrBsUXtlYKyxSpQzA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:50:02Z
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I think there are some obvious reasons why thats true. My brother was pretty good at chess and won some trophies on the school team so I tried to join. (he told me when he joined he didn't even know how to play.)This ended up being one of the most explicit experiences with sexism in my life! The first time I showed up they pretended I was in the wrong place. "This isn't the chess club it's the Anime club."I told the advisor who now resented me for making him come to the meetings. 1/
(DIR) Post #AYrBsWFtPT7gGCQ5CK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:53:05Z
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So, now they couldn't get me to leave by lying ... no one would play against me since "you don't have a rating its a wast of time"I managed to get a few games out of the advisor (who clearly wanted to be grading papers) unlike my brother I came to the club already knowing the game. On the third meeting they relented and they had what I learned later was their best player go against me. Of course I lost very quickly and badly! "You see there's no point in your being here."2/
(DIR) Post #AYrBsY28nZJLm8082a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:56:19Z
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Looking back I can recognize that I was "ruining" their club in a way they couldn't articulate. Because not everyone there was already skilled and with time... I probably would have beat one of the weaker players-- and this just couldn't be allowed to happen. That's how I read it. I remember calling my brother at college and asking "did the chess club haze you or anything?" and he was so confused. I tried out for the fall play and when I got cast I forgot all about those guys. 3/
(DIR) Post #AYrBsZrZzo3FRx4irA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T01:59:00Z
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Well, mostly forgot about them. They were the "hardcore STEM crew" so I kept popping up wherever they did. I remember riding with one of their dads down to the state science fair finals. Seeing them at math competitions. I think if they didn't have some kind of masculinity fear complex we could have been really great friends. OH WELL sucks for them. 4/4
(DIR) Post #AYrDwBYKWVpF7Qv4JU by flux_the_cat@poa.st
2023-08-18T14:10:05.555844Z
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@futurebird trannies should be locked up in mental institutions.
(DIR) Post #AYrIRz8GdYr7gI9DCC by SpecialPeoplesClub@poa.st
2023-08-18T14:46:48.988102Z
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@flux_the_cat @futurebird You misspelled “shot in the groin and left to bleed out in a drainage ditch”, friend.
(DIR) Post #AYrNkzBl9Rmf82f1ai by nach@bae.st
2023-08-18T16:00:05.611115Z
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@not2b @michaelgemar @futurebird yes, turns out russians are actually more intelligent than amerilards :thonk:
(DIR) Post #AYrVdN8t0XKcjiCI1w by Heil_Honkler@poa.st
2023-08-18T17:28:22.958414Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AYrhsEIDOJUD5FPa6q by cadenza@universeodon.com
2023-08-18T12:51:52Z
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@futurebird I don’t even understand why there’s gender divisions in chess given that there’s fundamentally no intellectual difference between men and women. Gender division in physical sports makes a little sense, though physical differences between athletes of different genders are smaller than we’re generally led to believe. (Which is why letting trans people compete as their chosen gender will only have a negligible difference on sport.)
(DIR) Post #AYrhsF30aKutQNIx2u by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T12:56:52Z
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@cadenza I keep seeing people say this let me explain why I strongly support keeping a women's league in chess given its current um... condition.If my HS had a "women's chess team" I might have stuck with it.When you have extreme sexism so much that almost no women even show up it's a good first step. Likewise their policy of making the other division "open" rather than "mens" was also good IMO.But it seems obvious to me that trans women would be welcomed in the women's division. 1/
(DIR) Post #AYrhsFlfuGe5euCcfQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T12:59:44Z
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Sadly it seems that the ICF didn't see the women's division as a way of affirming that women should participate and providing a more welcoming space to do so as the number of women would grow (and drift off into the open division as already happened with the top female players)No, these big-brain chess boys really thought that it was a biological handicap they were running! So, given that maybe scrap the whole thing. Scrap the ICF. Throw the whole chess set out and start over. 2/
(DIR) Post #AYrhsGbQnq2uFQPxL6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T13:05:31Z
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Another fun activity that was gender segregated when I was younger was D&D-- or rather I was told bluntly that "it wasn't for girls" --When some girls at my school wanted to start a D&D club I jumped at the chance to be the advisor. Their club is now the larger one. They called it "Girls+" since one of our non-binary students preferred to join this club and the existing members didn't even hesitate about if they'd belong. 3/
(DIR) Post #AYrhsHMvxE2kckdtNg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T13:06:30Z
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At this point they have the better two DMs IMO. So we might merge the clubs in a year or two. But can you see how having it for a bit helped them to get established, learn the ropes in a better environment?On some level I totally get "women's chess" and wish I could have founds some when I was younger. 4/4
(DIR) Post #AYrhsI4XL6vCnz2iLQ by cadenza@universeodon.com
2023-08-18T13:33:07Z
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@futurebird you know, the same thing is happening in comedy. Comedy classes are generally co-ed, but more schools are offering women-only classes. Not because women need help in learning how to be funny, but because male comedians are so obnoxious and inhibit female students from learning and perfecting their craft.
(DIR) Post #AYrhsIMyEZfPj9fR4q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T13:50:22Z
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The "Girls+" things was a "The Kids Are All Right" moment for me. The non-binary student had told me they wanted to join I spent the day fretting over if this would be 'a problem' (As a teacher, I don't tell them what to think about such matters and tend to be pretty careful about that.)But, when I walked in, they breezily informed me: "Sam* has joined and, oh now the club is called Girl+'s D&D" Didn't even see an 'issue.'*not real name, of course
(DIR) Post #AYrhsIr6QXlnEblV2m by Bugaboo@c.im
2023-08-18T13:53:25Z
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@cadenza @futurebird If only men would be euthanized, and eradicated from the face of the earth, we'd all be a lot happier, I'm sure you agree. 👍
(DIR) Post #AYrhsJZPlnDPS2Ut72 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T13:56:03Z
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@Bugaboo @cadenza That sounds awful. Why not try not loading up young boys with impossible contradictory expectations then also telling them to repress all their feelings instead?Oh and teach them that women and girls are actual human people with minds and inner-lives just as important as their own.
(DIR) Post #AYrhsK9ZbM8fGBPlTM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-08-18T13:54:03Z
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Got chess and D&D mixed up in the club name and made a correction.
(DIR) Post #AYrhsKLcsXmPrZ3OG8 by Bugaboo@c.im
2023-08-18T13:57:58Z
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@futurebird @cadenza We could also try teaching girls, and women that all men aren't evil, that's a good start. 👍
(DIR) Post #AYrhsL1SN1ExxIcnSa by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2023-08-18T19:45:25Z
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@Bugaboo ...and non-toxic men could call their friends and neighbors on oppressive behaviors. It's a collective responsibility.
(DIR) Post #AYuY1vRptVtLSwmBtY by pernia@cum.salon
2023-08-20T04:39:17.568481Z
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@get @pernia @SoyMagnus @futurebird @bot @meso me twith my gi?lfriend @nukie
(DIR) Post #AYuaILIHldCmARGUhk by meowski@fluf.club
2023-08-20T05:04:43.750252Z
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@futurebird trannies are too busy dilating and injecting hormones and stuff to get good at chess
(DIR) Post #AYufHughBjsLQ7IUuO by nukie@boymoder.biz
2023-08-20T06:00:40.962013Z
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@zappes @futurebird I love chess now
(DIR) Post #AYufO1SGwMX898SpXs by nukie@boymoder.biz
2023-08-20T06:01:47.308497Z
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@pernia @pernia @meowski @SoyMagnus @get @futurebird @bot @meso REALAlso why do they call the kid gapejak
(DIR) Post #AYufRa20qHqIFgsTnU by pernia@cum.salon
2023-08-20T06:02:20.785033Z
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@nukie @pernia @meowski @SoyMagnus @get @futurebird @bot @meso idk
(DIR) Post #AYvQRR7qeLvWTc2a9I by pernia@cum.salon
2023-08-20T14:48:58.796763Z
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@SoyMagnus @nukie @pernia @get @futurebird @bot @meso rapeson
(DIR) Post #AYvQSeOmmn2TvrXfSi by pernia@cum.salon
2023-08-20T14:49:08.750902Z
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@SoyMagnus @nukie @pernia @get @futurebird @bot @meso yea
(DIR) Post #AYvwLRte4GKDfBaOnI by ins0mniak@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-20T20:46:31.733188Z
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@SoyMagnus @pernia @bot @futurebird @get @meso @nukie @pernia Man, fucking sexpests.
(DIR) Post #AYvwSHXexqfjZmYpOK by ins0mniak@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-20T20:47:45.827077Z
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@SoyMagnus @bot @futurebird @get @meso @nukie @pernia @pernia look at this fuckerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3CMRrgPYY
(DIR) Post #AYvwf07j2JjlJpUl0a by ins0mniak@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-20T20:50:03.734890Z
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@SoyMagnus @bot @futurebird @get @meso @nukie @pernia @pernia Man, no kidding.Like i can't belive it's not against the law to not beat the fuck out of a sexpest
(DIR) Post #AYvxBVQAD0lPeWcR04 by ins0mniak@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-20T20:55:56.214919Z
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@SoyMagnus @bot @futurebird @get @meso @nukie @pernia @pernia Bro, I hate everything rn
(DIR) Post #AYw1RIHpD4wrMnVD96 by ins0mniak@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-20T21:43:36.619929Z
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@SoyMagnus @bot @futurebird @get @meso @nukie @pernia @pernia Everytime I get down I jam to the Beach Boys