# @pinknews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOGxcq3jHBZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34303977-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-02T16:02:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

The new French Women’s Chess Champion Yosha Iglesias has opened up about her transition journey.

French chess player Yosha Iglesias recently became the second transgender woman to win a national title.

Iglesias also made history in April 2024, becoming the first transgender Woman International Master.

The 37-year-old recently spoke about her transition journey to Firstpost: “Happiness felt impossible. I was not living, I was surviving day by day […] My real life started when I accepted who I already was and began my transition in 2020. To be finally seen and accepted as a woman; it felt amazing.”

#chess #GrandMaster #YoshaIglesias #France #Transgender #lgbtqia

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transgender, yoshaiglesias, lgbtqia, grandmaster, france, chess

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