The world chess federation FIDE recently made the incredibly transphobic and mysogynist ruling to exclude trans women from competing in women’s tournaments, to strip trans men of pre-transition titles and to subject trans people to a two-year long surveilance process that could lead to forced outings. The German and French chess federation have now decided to ignore this ruling. Source in German (mostly with the info from the image): https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46744
Apparently it’s because male chess players aren’t capable of behaving like adults around women, so they split them by gender to prevent the male players from harassing the female players out of the game entirely.
incredible