Once your queen is killed, if you get a pawn (presumably male pawn since females were not allowed in military roles) to the other side of the board then you can choose to turn your pawn into a queen. This transition would by definition of the roles also be a gender transition making your new queen a transgender character.

Or chess pieces are generally small pieces of wood or plastic or metal and thus don't have a gender...

Funnily enough, I was just reading an article about how Israeli players have been excluded from the World Chess Championship because it's being held in Saudi Arabia, and other female players are boycotting over the restrictive women's rights there, with everyone asking how on earth it was awarded to the Saudis.

Not so progressive nowadays then...

Why are we applying gender to pawns..

I played tournament chess for twenty years. I met nudists, stoners, schizophrenics, people with tourettes, people with epilepsy. There was a definite type of person who played chess and socially awkward was the more common. However everyone was accepted. There was a guy who used to fart and belch during the games. Another guy was a master from iowa who literally drove to tournaments naked. He refused to wear shoes and eventually a guy died in his sex dungeoun in Des Moines Iowa. I really wish I was making these people up.

Suffice it to say chess players are strange. Very very eccentric, and many have strange habits, or disorders.

I can only play chess in person. I can't play chess online... I mean I'm not bad online I still can set up some nasty traps and play a good game, but I do my best in person, because there's an element of reading the other player. they watch your eyes, and you watch them watching your eyes.

it also makes me a very obnoxious player to go up against, and for @brainbomb I'm in the category of epileptics

Theres nothing wrong with having Epilepsy. I was more concerned about the Nudist guy who has a creepy sex dungeoun and the guy who always farted and belched during games lol

I wear sunglasses when I play face to face sometimes. So people dont look at ke

ke

Epilepsy has more chance of ruining a game than someone maintaining a sex dungeon at home. People dying in it is unfortunate, but everyone has to die somewhere. Might as well do it whilst doing something you enjoy.

Sunglasses indoors, however, is unforgivable.