{"id":5033,"date":"2023-09-08T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:38:53","slug":"transgender-policies-yo-homey-is-that-my-briefcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=5033","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Policies: “Yo homey…is that my briefcase?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIDE stepped in it with this nonsense that Jennifer Shahade calls out, brilliantly tying it to the Chess #MeToo movement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last week, the International Chess Federation, or FIDE,\u00a0announced new regulations on transgender players<\/a>, including new restrictions on transgender women competing in women\u2019s events and stripping trans men of previously won women\u2019s titles.\u00a0This conflicts with the policies observed by the U.S. Chess Federation and many others. (The Russian government\u00a0quickly praised the decision<\/a>\u00a0and urged other \u201cinternational sports organizations [to] follow this move.\u201d)<\/p>\n

FIDE\u2019s announcement comes as chess\u2019 MeToo movement has escalated in recent weeks. The governing body\u2019s move seems like a smoke screen, a way to divert attention from MeToo. But the dual bigotry goes back to the origins of chess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After FIDE’s dumbassery, US Chess reminded people of its Transgender Policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At their quarterly meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, the US Chess Federation\u2019s Executive Board adopted the following transgender policy on May 20, 2018, by a unanimous vote of 7-0: \u201cThe Executive Board moves to adopt the following transgender policy as provided by legal counsel: Allow a person to identify as they choose, and allow each person one change to their gender identification. If an individual attempts a second change to gender identification, at that time the individual must provide US Chess a birth certificate, and the birth gender indicated on the birth certificate will be used to determine gender for US Chess purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the comments section, you’ll find:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And you should know that Jennifer Shahade has resigned from US Chess<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sadly, I leave with heavy concerns.\u00a0After I went public in February\u00a0with a viral tweet\u00a0<\/a>about being assaulted by a prominent Grandmaster, things escalated quickly. More women came forward to me and a Wall Street Journal article,\u00a0\u201cHow Allegations Against a U.S. Grandmaster Went Unaddressed for Years\u201d<\/a>\u00a0dropped on International Women\u2019s Day.\u00a0 You can read a particularly detailed account of the timeline and institutional failures\u2014in lichess\u2019s \u201cBreaking the Silence<\/a>\u201d as well as\u00a0a subsequent WSJ piece\u00a0<\/a>on the fallout. One of the most alarming facts that came out was that US Chess sent Alejandro as a coach at the Women\u2019s Olympiad\u2014an event that includes over 100 minors\u2014despite my repeated warnings (in addition to warnings from others) that he allegedly abused a 15-year-old, and that he had also attacked me.\u00a0<\/em>With the truth out, I was hopeful, perhaps naively so, that I could help reset the pieces and forge a better future within US Chess especially for our girls and children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIDE stepped in it with this nonsense that Jennifer Shahade calls out, brilliantly tying it to the Chess #MeToo movement: Last week, the International Chess Federation, or FIDE,\u00a0announced new regulations on transgender players, including new restrictions on transgender women competing in women\u2019s events and stripping trans men of previously won women\u2019s titles.\u00a0This conflicts with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-08-at-9.29.05-AM-1.jpg?fit=792%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-1jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}