A lot of people will have seen the recent news about FIDE banning trans players. It will probably be surprising, unsettling, disturbing to most people but after a few days will be out of their thoughts.

As a chess player with trans friends in and out of the chess community, it will be an issue that I'll be closely watching.

In my opinion, it is part of a wider range of non inclusive (bigoted) issues in the chess world. I wrote about it, and have been battling on chess forums for the past 24 hours...

#chess #trans #transrightsarehumanrights #equality

https://pootletootle.blogspot.com/2023/08/chess-victims.html