Maxine Blythin - 2019 Kent Woman Player of the Year

I think they play on the men's team for a completely different area, but I don't think they'd win anything as they are boringly average for the male team.

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I don't know how this passed me by

Probably because the women's awards were rather tacked onto the stuff about the (other) men?

why are we accepting this?!!

I suppose the Kent teammates are accepting this because of 'her role in the team's County Championship triumph.'

FFS indeed

too many exclamation marks!

thats tucked away nicely isnt it!

what a fecking cheat!

why are we accepting this?!!

Oh but apparently letting male-bodied people in women's sports won't cause any problems, no, not at all.

FFS

Yet another picture, yet another thousand words.....

Yet another (born) woman loses out on an accolade.

I wonder if anyone knows Rachel Heyhoe Flint's view on this?

My view is that it's adding insult to injury to the female cricketers in Kent.
It's practically trolling them.

The term used is 'awarded' which is a little bit ambiguous to me, can anyone clarify. I am interpreting it that Maxine was the highest scoring person competing in a woman's team. Maxine was not selected or chosen for this award, it is based purely on the scores. Am I right? However a woman was voted as women's player of the year, that is she didn't win it on scores but was selected by peers?

Unfortunately it's everywhere. I have a child who plays dodgeball so I was asked to fill a player registration out for competitive playing.

For under 16s it asks the question 'what gender does your child identify as?' I emailed to say I was unable to fill the form in as my child does not have a gender identity. Bit pissed off that it meant we couldn't register to play, though.

I looked a bit deeper into their policies and lo and behold their womens and mens teams are done on gender identity rather than sex. Never mind the point that the under 16s teams are mixed sex so this info is irrelevant.

I don’t have the words right now to express how I feel about this without being banned. All I will say is that I have a young DD who is just getting into sports and this type of “advantage” concerns me greatly and i’m worried about the future of Women’s sports. That’s about as nicely as I can comment.

And yet it remained quiet. Why didn't any famous cricket players call this out?

What the fuck?

How did Blyth do in the men's awards (given that Blyth continued to play for both teams, albeit with dramatically different batting averages, which I think shows something about something or other, which I'm not sure I'm allowed to say clearly without being deleted).

Fucking hell, we get, what three or four years of women's sport being taken seriously and televised and actually attracting decent crowds and now all of that is going to be destroyed utterly.

If a person went through male puberty and insists on playing women's sport, then that person is a cheat.