The world chess federation FIDE recently made the incredibly transphobic and mysogynist ruling to exclude trans women from competing in women’s tournaments, to strip trans men of pre-transition titles and to subject trans people to a two-year long surveilance process that could lead to forced outings. The German and French chess federation have now decided to ignore this ruling. Source in German (mostly with the info from the image): https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46744
Why is a chess tournament even separated by gender?
Apparently it’s because male chess players aren’t capable of behaving like adults around women, so they split them by gender to prevent the male players from harassing the female players out of the game entirely.
incredible
The below are goodi answers, but the original answer was that men made it a boys only club and excluded women from competition into the late 1950s, so women made their own tornament.
There aren’t enough top level female players yet. Women’s tournaments draw more money and attention. Plus there are no male-only tournaments.
Women get separate titles to encourage more participation. That way they can get more out of participation besides endeavouring to take titles from men. Alongside what nat_turner is saying about men being weird.
That’s the current line. But its a bit like saying we have women’s restrooms to encourage more participation. Technically true, but it ignores the long and gross history of misogyny that forced the issue.
I’m unfamiliar with it. Unsurprising and sad
Because chess players are by and large incredibly obnoxious towards women, so in order to prevent a huge amount of scandals regarding harassment or worse, FIDE decided to just segregate the tournaments to prevent the male players from having the opportunity to be sex pests.
Because of Heated Gamer Moments. Not really joking. It’s because of
antics and general misogyny going back decades.