After track and field, cycling and swimming, chess has decided to ban transgender women from competing in the women바카라s category.
FIDE, the game바카라s ruling body, made its decision official on Monday, ruling that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.
바카라Change of gender is a change that has a significant impact on a player's status and future eligibility to tournaments, therefore it can only be made if there is a relevant proof of the change provided,바카라 the federation said. 바카라In 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.바카라
The announcement was necessitated by FIDE member federations increasingly receiving recognition requests from players who identify as transgender.
Under the new ruling, holders of women's titles who change their genders to male will see those titles 바카라abolished.바카라
The titles could be reinstated 바카라if the person changes the gender back to a woman.바카라
바카라If a player has changed the gender from a man into a woman, all the previous titles remain eligible,바카라 Fide said.
Fide acknowledged that the subject was complex, and 바카라further policy may need to be evolved in the future in line with research evidence.바카라
In the last few months, sports such as track and field, cycling and swimming have focused on fairness of competition rather than inclusion, and have banned transgender athletes from women바카라s events. But those are sports where strength, height, speed and physical attributes make a difference, and where transgender athletes are deemed to have an advantage over female athletes. That is not the case in chess, and therefore the FIDE move has elicited surprise as well as criticism in some quarters.
