The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “You need to compromise on your requests for equal treatment and basic human dignity, and if you don’t you’re being the unreasonable one” /s

      Amazing and heartbreaking how many people honestly expect trans people to live like that

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        1 year ago

        I’m just saying if your compromise involves throwing a minority under the bus, your just a speedbump on the road to fascism.

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          1 year ago

          Eh. Just because some compromise is bad does not mean all compromises are bad. Every situation is unique, and it’s not like compromise is murder or something.

          Democracy outranks human rights. The human rights were put there in the first place by the democracy, and can be amended by it as well. It completely outranks them, unless you believe they are “god-given” or something.

          This is why compromise within your own political system, in certain cases, retains value. If your faction is not strong enough, as trans folks in international chess probably aren’t, then it’s a tacit acknowledgement of your right to exist.

          Assuming the previous position was an outright ban, anyway. I don’t actually know if it was or not.

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            1 year ago

            Democracy outranks human rights.

            I don’t recall any part of the bill of rights saying “this doesn’t apply in cases where it’s unpopular”