International chess body bans transgender women from women's competitions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/08/17/fide-transgender-ban-chess-women/Under the new guidelines from the International Chess Federation — known by its French acronym, FIDE — individuals who transition from male to female have “no right” to compete in official events for women until “further analysis” is made, which could take up to two years. Additionally, if a player holds titles in women’s categories and transitions to male, “the women titles are to be abolished,” while if the player transitions from male to female, the titles will remain, the handbook says.
FIDE also said it has the right to “inform the organizers and other relevant parties” about a player’s gender change, which it said was to prevent players “from possible illegitimate enrollments in tournaments.”
Yosha Iglesias, a FIDE master and chess coach from France, expressed concern about the new regulations, writing on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the federation made it sound as if transgender players are “the biggest threat” to women in chess.
For all the crowing about PrOtEcTiNg WoMeN, anti-trans ideology is driven by misogyny.
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Of the 1600 international masters in the world, only 37 are women."
"There's not a women (sic) chess player in the world who is ranked in the top 100 of all chess players."
Do you think that's because women are intellectually inferior? 
No.
"Additionally, if a player holds titles in women’s categories and transitions to male, “the women titles are to be abolished,” while if the player transitions from male to female, the titles will remain, the handbook says."
I mean leaving aside the fact that it's just generally fucked up, I can't even see how it's remotely logical at it's core. I mean there's a lot of positions one could take that are kinda morally evil, but at least there's SOME logic to the argument.
On this one I can't even see how anyone could think 'this makes sense'. Either you don't vacate, or you always vacate, no matter the direction of transition.
This one is just total fucking nonsense 
And as you point out clearly based on misogyny. As my high school sweetheart explained to me - The moment she transitioned, her IQ went down 20 points. (To be clear: It didn't actually go down 20 points - but it did in the eyes of people who believe women are dumb, and how she was treated reflected that perception.)
Suggesting that women can't compete with men is ridiculous. But just like so many other gender/race differences in achievement far too many confuse correlation with causation and conclude women and racial minorities are far less competent because their numbers in science, math, corporate leadership are lower than those of cis-white men.
Maybe (specific to chess) there should be more encouragement to participate in chess - rather than saying: Don't you worry your pretty little head. We'll make a separte women's division - AND - we'll protect you from those evil trans women (who we all know are really men) from outsmarting you. 
It's similar to that Old Boy Club mentality that still permeates a lot of established academia.
Until the 1970's/1980's, women were just not expected to stay as smart as any childhood potential might show because apparently once we get our periods or have babies or something like that, our mental acuity is run by our hormones instead of our native intelligence or something.
We just don't have enough testosterone to be good at pattern solving or something like that. Or maybe we're just not cutthroat competitive because Wimmin are s'posed to be diplomatic an' nurturing and that sort of BS, so they gave us our own little table to sit and pretend we can play Chess like the Real Men do.
I don't know for sure. But it just seems to look like Old Boy Club policy making.
Haele
HUH?
