The international governing body of competitive chess is effectively banning transgender women from competing and stripping trans men of previously won women’s titles. In its guidelines for ...

The English Chess Federation (ECF) has said that it will not enforce restrictions on transgender people’s involvement in the game, in defiance of new rules introduced by chess’s international ...

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Rugby, swimming, track and field — transgender women have been banned from international women's events in a growing number of sports. The latest to make that list is chess. The International Chess ...

Clearly, it isn’t transness itself turning trans women into superpowered chess studs. It’s the fact that trans women were assigned male at birth. Far-right leaders are decimating LGBTQ+ rights to ...

Now chess, of all things, is banning trans women. Really! All bans on transgender people’s participation in professional sports are ridiculous, but some are so ridiculous that they leave you ...

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