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International chess federation FIDE: a trans woman "has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women" (doc.fide.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The international chess federation known as FIDE has published new rules that state that a person whose "gender was changed from a male to a female the player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made".

The new rules introduce the following changes:

Trans women cannot participate in the women's category unless they are explicitly allowed in a case-by-case process that can take up to two years.
Trans men will be stripped of their titles achieved before their transition while trans women will retain their titles achieved before their transition.
In case a trans person is allowed to participate, their trans condition will be added to their files and communicated to events organizers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Trans women have less testosterone than cis women, to the point where if they want to have some in their system they have to take progesterone.

So, basically, you're just making stuff up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The estrogen treatment regimens used in transgender women aim to lower testosterone levels to within the female range (<1 nmol/L) [52]. However, hormone therapy alone has met limited success in suppressing testosterone levels, with many transgender women failing to achieve the desired level. In recent studies of transgender women, one quartile failed to achieve any significant suppression [53] and one-third failed to suppress testosterone levels despite achieving desired estradiol levels [54]. Another study reported that only 49% of transgender women showed suppressed testosterone concentrations after 6 months or more of estrogen with the addition of antiandrogen therapy [55]. Notably, Jarin and colleagues show that testosterone levels in transgender women decreased significantly from former male levels, however nearly all participants maintained their testosterone levels above the female range [56]. Whether elite transwoman athletes experience the same difficulties in suppressing testosterone levels with estrogen therapy has not been reported.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831/

No, I'm really not making things up. This is actual scientific fact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In pre-op trans women. In post-op trans women the testosterone drops to zero ... the IOC requires women to be post-op in order to compete, for example.

So your "actual scientific fact" is a nicely cherry-picked piece of BS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The IOC is not the only body governing inclusion in sports, and the IOC has not required surgery at all since 2015. But sure I'm the one saying bs.

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