International Chess Federation, FIDE, has released new guidelines targeting transgender players. The guidelines would strip trans men's titles, and potentially bar trans women from playing.

Article by Erin Reed, reporting on a decision by chess org FIDE which effectively bars transgender individuals from participating in chess tournaments and strips trans men of their titles.

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not that I am aware of, except for age-old sexism and preferential treatment of male chess players at every step of the way. Chess grandmaster Judit Polgár is the living example of that IMO, simply because her parents circumvented the traditional obstacles for women in chess and thus allowed their daughter to rise to the very heights of chess.

      • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, even among many chess players FIDE has a bad reputation, because they are very much an “old boys’ club”, showed obvious favoritism to certain players and have often been credibly accused of corruption, though they always got away without consequences.