The world chess federation FIDE recently made the incredibly transphobic and mysogynist ruling to exclude trans women from competing in women's tournaments, to strip trans men of pre-transition titles and to subject trans people to a two-year long surveilance process that could lead to forced outings. The German and French chess federation have now decided to ignore this ruling. Source in German (mostly with the info from the image): https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46744
rare german w![GDR-emblem GDR-emblem](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e3de44cb-8bc7-41a5-97ef-cba60510ae6f.png)
germany folded in the wrong direction![sadness sadness](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3de7432c-5d0b-441d-9167-0c61cc3838ab.png)
especially as the new united Germany just abolished every legal change made over the entire course of East Germany rather than incoporate their changes. Which the more historically minded might predict made the law a lot more bigoted