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.

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.

    • Kara
      19•1 year ago

      And the CEO is Emil Sutovsky, who recently made a twitter poll, basically asking, let’s be honest, does anyone actually care to watch this women’s tournament? When he never made a similar poll for any other tournament.
      The chess world really needs to outgrow the sexist and transphobic FIDE

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 year ago

      No wonder the “gender change” wording of their new rules is so similar to the new Russian law that essentially bans transitioning.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        One can imagine that every oligarch who wants to suck the milk of Mr. Putin is required to demonstrate loyalty periodically by pissing in the eyes of one of Mr. Putin’s designated targets. LGBTQ+ is just one of those.