The world governing body of competitive chess, International Chess Federation, FIDE, is effectively banning transgender women from competing.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced that transgender women have “no right to participate” in women’s chess events. The regulatory organisation that governs international ...

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 ...

Pringle is right. The people who run chess obviously think “biological men” are smarter than women, and therefore a trans woman will have an advantage in the brains department.

GENEVA (AP) — The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for women until its officials make an assessment of gender change. The ...

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 ...

The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

Ana Valens, a trans writer for The Mary Sue, also challenged the news in an op-ed titled “Oh Great, Now I Can’t Play Chess Because I’m Trans.” “This raises many questions,” Valens wrote.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has released a new policy on trans players, which declares that trans women have “no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until ...

One of the most moving was from a trans player who told me she had quit chess to transition but that my story inspired her to return to competition,” Iglesias told Erin in the Morning.

Yosha Iglesias, a FIDE chess master, professional chess coach and trans woman, criticized the new guidelines on Thursday. “If you want to help women in chess, fight sexist and sexual violence ...