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The regulatory organization that governs international chess competition announced this week that transgender women would effectively be banned from playing in women’s events until further notice. In ...

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The International Chess Federation—the international governing body for chess—unveiled new policies that prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s events, as sports like swimming and ...