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

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ncGCFeminist · 31/07/2020 13:45

Kent County Cricket has yet again, even after protests last year, awarded a squad place to Maxine Blythin.
For those who don't know Maxine, they are a transgender woman, who doesn't live 'fully as a woman', has had no surgery nor reduced their testosterone levels. Maxine was, nonetheless, awarded the Kent County Cricket Woman's Player of the Year for 2019.

Last year, Maxine also enjoyed playing as Max on alternate weekend days in a mediocre men's team.
Let's compare stats for 2019, as Max playing as a Man vs 'Woman'':

Chesham Second XI men's team (mediocre village team):
8 matches, 79 runs in total, highest score 44, average 13.16

Kent women's county cricket team (semi-pro women's team, earning £££s):
8 matches, 629 runs in total, highest score 152*, average 104.83

Crystal clear proof that men competing in women's sports is NOT fair.

This needs some loud protests from those who care about women's sports.

twitter.com/KentCricket/status/1288753950150152192?s=20

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Campervan69 · 31/07/2020 14:38

A man with low testosterone is still not a woman.

OvaHere · 31/07/2020 14:36

Maxine I imagine can claim whatever the hell they like in this climate. It's appalling that this is allowed.

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.

timetest · 31/07/2020 14:27

I’m not defending Maxine but I thought the argument was Maxine never went through male puberty and didn’t have male levels of testosterone. I completely agree males have no place in women’s sport.

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ncGCFeminist · 31/07/2020 14:22

@timetest

I thought Maxine was intersex.
Intersex isn't a 3rd sex, Maxine is either male or female. I'd suggest Maxine has enjoyed much much more testosterone than the average woman has given those stats above.
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truthisarevolutionaryact · 31/07/2020 14:12

So a woman cricketer loses out on a county team place in favour of a man self identifying as a woman. And this is allegedly progress in women's sport.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 31/07/2020 14:10

It's all bullshit.

timetest · 31/07/2020 14:09

I thought Maxine was intersex.

gardenbird48 · 31/07/2020 14:07

I can’t believe Maxine doesn’t even identify as a woman full time! I struggle to reconcile this with the concept of dysphoria - how can you have gender dysphoria yet identify as a man some of the time? Are there any other body dysphoria conditions that are part time? How can someone be trans without dysphoria?

EdgeOfACoin · 31/07/2020 14:06

That's shocking. How can this be allowed?

nauticant · 31/07/2020 13:49

It's not so easy to get the news out:

twitter.com/riotingxx/status/1288444556728573952