FIDE, the sport’s international governing body, approved new rules this month and declared they would be in effect until “further analysis” was possible.
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.
“In the event that the gender was changed from a male to a female the player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made.” It acknowledged that such questions regarding transgender players were an “evolving issue for chess” and that “further policy may need to be evolved in the future in line with research evidence.”
Cathy Renna, communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force in the US, hit out at the new regulations.The lack of such regulations caused “ambiguity,” it said, “and therefore an established order was needed to provide the right of the transgender players being properly represented on the official register of FIDE.”
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