The esports tournament organization ESL denied a team a of trans women from competing in its Female Open Summer 2017 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. After one of the players went to BuzzFeed with her story, and news spread, ESL is looking into revising its rules so nothing like that happens again.
Sly Buehl Rigilio, a trans Counter-Strike player from Italy, told BuzzFeed that she and her team signed up for this season's Female Open, a tournament organized by Munich Finest Gaming and hosted by ESL. This is the response Rigilio received from ESL via email:
The email nearly brought Rigilio to tears, she told Buzzfeed. Read more...
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