A player that transitioned from Male to Female can keep the titles she’s won, but cannot play Women’s chess.
A player that transitioned from Female to Male has the titles he’s won up until this point removed under the apparent logic he’s obtained them fraudulently, unless he decides to switch back to Female, cricket noises on whether he can win them back or not?
InternetPeon says
Why is chess segregated by sex?
nytefox42 says
Because a person’s sex plays a role in their ability to play chess?
Taskebab says
Anya Taylor-Joy did not take all those pills for equality in chess for this bullshit.
Responsible-Fox8610 says
Men 🏅 women 🦆
Zolome1977 says
This is truly a stupid thing to do, segregate the sexes in chess to begin with. That’s all.
Saturn5mtw says
I cant wait to see the fucking braindead takes of people defending this, its only a matter of time.
pied_goose says
Wait, so.
A player that transitioned from Male to Female can keep the titles she’s won, but cannot play Women’s chess.
A player that transitioned from Female to Male has the titles he’s won up until this point removed under the apparent logic he’s obtained them fraudulently, unless he decides to switch back to Female, cricket noises on whether he can win them back or not?
Jamal_Joestar says
Literal Borat level reasoning for this rule… I’m astounded, why?
flingeflangeflonge says
How many chess players in the world does this affect? 1? 2? none?
Ubersupersloth says
Good luck trying to prove gender. It’s a weird nebulous mental identity thing and we don’t even fully know what it is.
DmonHiro says
OK… Proof of what?
not_a_moogle says
I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I’d let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you