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.

  • @pqdinfo@lemmy.world
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    61 year ago

    Thanks for the explanation both you and i_ben_fine@lemmy.one. With these kinds of 19th Century attitudes I guess I shouldn’t be surprised they’d also be bigoted toward trans people…

    • @squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      1 year 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.