FILE - Players attend the FIDE World Chess Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, on April 29, 2023. The world's top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official ...

The international governing body of competitive chess is effectively banning transgender women from competing and stripping trans men of previously won women’s titles. In its guidelines for ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) ruled that transgender women are barred from competing in the organization’s official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The governing body of the top chess federation in the world decreed Monday that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of ...

GENEVA (AP) — 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. The decision by ...