Unless you move your pieces around with your genitals, there is no goddamm good reason for CHESS COMPETITIONS to ban transgender players.

I MEAN COME THE FUCK ON.

@JenWojcik What is the stated reason?

@matejpp @JenWojcik

(Other than transphobia) they didn't give one.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/fide-chess-ban-transgender-women-b2394457.html

And to add to the problem:

"Under the new guidelines, any transgender men who earned their titles in pre-transition period in a women’s tournament will be stripped of those achievements and the “abolished women title may be transferred into a general title of the same or lower level... But trans women who won titles in men’s events will be allowed to keep that title in full.”

International Chess Federation bans trans women with bizarre new policy

FIDE says players who transition ‘from male to female’ will not be allowed to play in women’s events

The Independent
@woodsbythesea @matejpp @JenWojcik Just when you think the whole thing couldn’t possibly get more misogynistic or transphobic than it already is…