"Women's" Cricket; Kent CC squad including a man

How can someone do this and look people on the eye? It’s like me getting on my nieces under 10s soccer team and creaming all those little weaklings...

This is fucking outrageous!

This shows the focus on testosterone is such a red herring. Max's testosterone levels is supposedly 1 (which puts them in the normal female range.) Despite that Max is clearly dominating in the women's team! So surely the most relevant factor is the fact that Max is a biological male.

I’ve emailed the ECB about this - smacks of cheating the system by Kent. If I hear back I will post.

If I remember rightly the Kent woman’s captain tried to defend it on twitter last year and got ratio’d to fuck

They have lovely hair. They also have an Adam's apple.

Do cricketers usually wear boxes? I think they do.

I can imagine Blythin likes cricket, plays on mixed teams, and didn't experience the same puberty most boys would. They probably have a hormonal condition of some type.

However, I don't think they are female and shouldn't be playing on a women's team.

Find this so discouraging. Especially as hardly any reputable media are covering this--I try to do my research and only found articles in the Sun, the Daily Mail, etc. It's extremely difficult to have a conversation with my ("woke") husband if I can only refer him to sensationalising tabloids.

But it’s not fair (not cricket you might even say).

How come they were playing in the men’s league - do the allow women to play for men’s teams?

Thanks ChubbyPigeon.

I think that tells us a lot.

So basically these days if you are male you can retrofit whatever history you want and spout medical nonsense with impunity in order to colonise women's sport.

@DialSquare
As a boy, always as a boy until they left school

And their voice was not that high pitched.

At club level, Blythin has also played in 'open cricket' - matches in which the vast majority of players are men, but in which women often participate as well. Comparisons have frequently been drawn between her statistics in open cricket and the women's game, sometimes leading to confusion.

That's from the Sky article. Did she play mens cricket too, or is that a misleading statement from Sky?

Her interview doesn't seem to make much sense, and it's quite concerning.

A female puberty involves periods, vaginal discharge, the growing of breasts, the widening of the hips. I doubt Maxine has been through that somehow.

Blythin has also described how her transition has involved taking the hormones necessary to fulfil a female puberty

Yes

But Boys go through puberty between 9 and 14...they certainly weren’t given hormones for a female puberty then

The 24-year-old describes how she transitioned in her teenage years, having experienced gender dysphoria
But Maxine was playing men's cricket last year.

Kent can get in the bin for doing this.

The ECB and ICC need to do what the RFU have done and hold a proper enquiry

Blythin has also described how her transition has involved taking the hormones necessary to fulfil a female puberty.

Maxine never went through male puberty

I’m confused (no surprise)

So they didnt go through a male puberty, so are they saying They went through a female puberty or didnt go through puberty (neither of those things I believe)

but her condition - which she says has been established by doctors but is yet to receive a full medical diagnosis

So hang on - Maxine's saying they're intersex, but isn't actually diagnosed. Wants to share their biological details, but can't actually name anything, has no NHS diagnosis, despite apparently never having gone through puberty?

None of this makes any sense.

Actually playing cricket against boys in late primary/early secondary is what totally put me off playing cricket. I never had a hope of being up to their standard - even when we were like 11 he was significantly taller and stronger than me.

A man with low testosterone is still not a woman.

Yep.

A man with low testosterone is still a man.

I went to school with maxine (have even played cricket with them) they are well over 6 ft tall -Id have said 6'4. In mens shoe sizes by 11, how can they not have gone through any male puberty? They have a male physique regardless.

Yes mum is tall, as is sister but like 5'8 -5'10 not 6'4

I'm sure at the moment Kent think it's great having a socially approved way to cheat but when all the teams start doing it it's going to be a mess and the women that support it now will eventually realise how they've been used and screwed over.

Of course. Women's teams will be made up largely of men who identify as women. And women will be nowhere.

The fact that people can't see this, or think that it's fine in principle, as long as it's only one, or two, is the very definition of misogyny.