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Of course they are, the pieces are super manly in the men's games. Made of concrete for extra ruggedness and painted manly colors, nothing bright or cheerful as far as the eye could see. And the chairs they sit in are also super manly no comfort at all. All played on a manly tactical chessboard. /S
Seriously though this whole decision just screams "cruelty is the point" and no concept of equality.
I'm especially fascinated by the gendered difference in whether you get to keep your titles. So transitioning one way means you keep your chess muscles? But not the other? Transness itself isn't the problem then?? I'd love to hear them attempt to justify that rule.
They seem to be applying the correct gender retroactively, with a key difference being that there's a women's protected category and an open category. Women, cis or trans, can play in the open category so change in gender status for someone who competed as if they were a man (and thus necessarily in the open category) is irrelevant to the titles.
At present I'm inclined to disagree with this apparent retroactive application so I'm not defending this, just explaining my understanding of their thinking. It's about open and protected categories. If it was men's only and women's only, it would be different.
One point in defence of retroactively changing titles for trans men: the documentation specifies that women's titles can be transferred to an open title of the same or lower level, which effectively protects trans men's privacy by not leaving them with women's titles that would otherwise out them. I'm not sure it was intentional, or just a side effect, but it's actually a good policy for trans men.
Ah. Thanks for explaining. In their twisted world that sort of makes sense.
Thanks, that makes sense. (I'm not agreeing with them either).
Me too. I can't figure out the bigoted "logic" here at all.
It's based on the elo of the player. As an example, a Women's Grand Master (WGM) is someone with an elo of atleast 2300 with three norms (played against others with a similar title). Compare that to an International Master, which is someone with an elo of 2400 and three norms (here the norms are against an IM). A Fide Master has an elo of 2300 with no norm, so a WGM is as strong as an FM. So FIDE argues that a WGM transitioning to a man may be given the title FM, and so on. However, in the other case, an IM (male or female) transitioning would have the same rating since IM > WGM, and hence the same title.
Edit: elo is a rating scale irrespective of gender. Higher elo implies better player.