cisgender women players were considering quitting, fearing unfair competition

An unfair competition... in a damn chess game?! WHAT?!

The Times reports that she claimed some cisgender women players were considering quitting, fearing unfair competition

At least with the more physical sports there's a (spurious) argument about bone structure or whatever. There really isn't that same argument wrt Chess, even if it be a bit physically taxing.

What's the excuse here? "Afab players are too stupid to face trans opponents"?

Internationally, the World Chess Federation imposed a temporary ban in 2023, preventing trans women from women’s tournaments pending further review — a rule Germany opposes, pointing out that a trans woman had already claimed a national women’s title in the early 2000s, Apollo News reports.

I think this just completely took effect and was not temporary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_chess
https://www.bbc.com/sport/67127168

The whole thing is a shitshow, because if you are MTF , FIDE does not think you are a woman, thus can't have women's titles, but also, if you're FTM , you are ALSO not a woman, so you can't keep your women's titles (Womens' grandmaster, Womens' International Master,etc).

Good on the German Chess Federation to not bow to pressure.

Just when the world couldn't get stupider…

Why should it prompt backlash? Did they celebrate the win by knocking over their opponent's king with their cock?

These pearl clutchers make me want to force said pearls down their throat until they shit out every single bead or I can grab one end of the necklace and rip it out like a fucking BeyBlade!

they prob cry over a trans person winning uno

yeah, but a BiOlOgIcAl man has a huge body advantge during chess!!!!!!!11111

I have, and never will, understand how the fuck being trans gives you any sort of advantage in chess. Only thing I have ever rationalized about this is that the people saying it surely must be sexist cave people.

Chess “is diverse and inclusive,” the German Chess Federation said

Lol, lmao even. It's one of the more sexist sports there are in terms of organization, often marginalizing women and most of these marginalizing structures are still there to this day. This isn't to excuse anti-LGBT rhetoric, but pretending like everything is fine with chess probably doesn't help.

I'm tired boss

The German Chess Federation has rejected any ban

meh.

if they really cared, there would not be any official 'gendered' tournaments. but there are, because they want that for some reason.