This is a disturbing and insulting decision to both cis-women as well as transgender men and women.

Besides the decision itself, here are some additional "gems" that show its backwardness:

Transgender men who transition after winning women's titles would see those titles "abolished," the federation said, while holding out the possibility of a reinstatement "if the person changes the gender back to a woman."

"If a player has changed the gender from a man into a woman, all the previous titles remain eligible," the federation said.

And, if it wouldn't be so sad, this here would have me roling on the floor. It seems, FIDE has not reached 2023 yet.. (It also sadly shows that even some women are still stuck in the 1950's)

A top global chess official Friday called for more research into whether factors such as hormone levels and physical endurance might have an impact on players' abilities at the male-dominated game. Her comments came after the world chess federation was heavily criticized for its decision to block transgender women from official women's events. (...)

(...)"What is still not clear is if the hormonal levels do influence the competitiveness in chess," Reizniece-Ozola said by video from Latvia's capital, Riga. "There is no serious research or scientific analysis that would prove one or the other way. There are speculations, but no more than that."

One of the reasons why so few women play chess and the reality of what female chess players had and have to fight against:

UK MP Angela Eagle, who was a joint winner of the 1976 British Girls' Under-18 chess championship, said: "There is no physical advantage in chess unless you believe men are inherently more able to play than women - I spent my chess career being told women's brains were smaller than men's and we shouldn't even be playing."

"This ban is ridiculous and offensive to women," she added.

Edit: removed redundancy

Please don't assume a "silent majority" in this matter.

From what I've seen so far, the majority of users who have expressed their opinion have spoken out against federation with Threads. Combine this with the fact that Lemmy's userbase grew substantially with former reddit users who not only are more likely to actively participate on Lemmy than they were on Reddit, but also left that social platform for reasons that mirror some of the sentiments expressed against Threads/Facebook/Meta, I don't think the idea of silent majority applies here.

If you are ok with Threads and all that comes with it, you are free to create an account with them. If you have an Instagram account, you might already have a Threads account automatically created for you by them. On the other hand, if you are a user who does not wish to interact with Threads, you wouldn't have the option to opt out short of finding a new instance that has defederated from Threads.

Yes, there is:

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There were a couple of threads a few days ago regarding naming a community Twoxchromosomes like on Reddit. The overall consensus was to move away from DNA connected names and go with a different name that is more inclusive and welcoming for transgendered or female identifying people 🙂

Edit Made my comment more inclusive

And TikTok. They've listed that one, too.

TikTok? Really Google?!

Have a look at

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🙂

The overall consensus in some other threads was to use a more inclusive name than the the DNA connected name from Reddit.

The article is well worth a read. I didn't want to copy & paste the whole article due to its length, but it goes into different reasons why women tend to have more migraines than men (e.g. estrogen/progesteron levels) and in which cases it might be a better strategy to avoid medication (e.g. birth control) with estrogen.

Yes there is:

!women

The consensus of previous similar threads looking for something akin to r/Twoxchromosomes was to move away from DNA related names to sound more inclusive and welcoming transgender and non-binary folks. 🙂

Women taking the least profitable outcome was overproportional, so men came out top by not volunteering for the office household tasks and making more money in the experiment.

Without the gender bias, you'd expect a similar outcome for men and women to volunteer.

The authors conducted additional experiments with same gender groups. It appears, they measured the time it took someone to volunteer and there were no differences in women-only and men-only test groups, so in the mixed groups, men seemed to hold back to volunteer, while women felt more obligated to step up.

Edit Shortened answer by taking out quote from the aricle

Maybe the linked comments suggestion is really the way to go. At least until they might (or might not) extend the character limits

BORU was my favourite sub. It would be awesome to see a Lemmy version of it flourish here :)

Edit Wording

I find this so fascinating and would love to know more about her life and why and how she came to such a high status in her lifetime.

Alas, as she lived in the bronze age, we probably will never learn the details. Hopefully, some old stories, legends or oral history similar to the Boudica have survived and can be connected to her. It would be so interesting to know more about her. That would be fantastic. I'm really stoked about this find

Yes, that was the sentiment of previous threads around this as well.

makeitso has created !women to be and sound more inclusive.

Please ELI5

Would that mean, if I'm googling for news in Canada, there won't be any links to news on e.g. Globe & Mail, CTV, CBC and other Canadian news outlets in the search results and Google also wouldn't show headlines of those outlets anymore? Would I have to go to each news outlet directly and see if and what kind of news they have that I could be interested in?

Does that "only" apply to Canadian news outlets or news in general about Canada or even the world (as long as the person's IP is located in Canada)? E.g an Al Jazeera article about Canada wouldn't be accessible for Canadians as well or a Globe &Mail article about a world event won't show up?

How does this affect links posted by users on other social media forums like Lemmy, Tildes, reddit, etc.?

Thank you.

I'm utterly horrified by what's going on there. Those poor women!

Yes, I found the participation rate argument very sound.

I wonder what else might be similarly biased?

Two examples come to mind:

1. Medical test subjects are predominantly if not exclusively male. So any new medication on the market are tailored for the physis and metabolism of a male body while the same medication might have different effects (including side effects) when it comes to women.

2. Scientific findings are often based on male bias, e.g. the remains of a high status person were declared being male. Only decades later with new technology was it possible to determine it was in fact a women. (See the Ivory man)

But this conversation would deserve its.owm thread. The OP post is regarding how women (cis and transgendered people) are treated in chess. The absurdity of backwards thinking and unfairness when it comes to treating women and men as assigned at birth. I'm not sure, if you missed the part where transgendered men are stripped of their titles when transitioning to male, while people transitioning to female are allowed to keep theirs.

This goes so much deeper. Like another commenter posted: "institutionalized patriarchy"

Thanks for creating the community.

You might also want to look at !women created by makeitso.

That sub had been created in response to threads that were looking for a community with a more inclusive sounding name that’s not connected with DNA :)

(Full disclosure: I’m not the creator or mod of that sub. I just want to promote it as it (still) has a less recognizable name for folks coming from r/Twox such as myself).

Redditor for 15 years, mostly lurker. I've never used the app and only used old.reddit. I've moved on the first black out day and so far, I'm not missing it. I prefer the vibe on Lemmy and hope, the conversations here stay as friendly as the communities grow :)

That's absolutely horrifying and showcases how little women's health is worth to law makers.

Absolutely disgusting! I feel for the women in Kentucky.

I agree, there's just not enough research or knowledge out there about such an important time in a women's life. There should be more conversation about Menopause.

What happens to “freedom of the press”?

This planned move is unacceptable. Freedom of the press is such an important part of functioning democracies and at least in Germany this move will undermine a right guaranteed in the constitution

Equally interesting study comes to the conclusion: gender differences in chess go back on the overrepresentation of men in chess in general

Article on the research: Why Men Rank Higher than Women at Chess (It's Not Biological)

I don't have access to what seems to be the actual study, but maybe you do: Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains