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ECB bans transgender women from top two tiers of women’s domestic cricket

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QAOPspaceman · 17/10/2024 19:39

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/17/cricket-transgender-women-banned-top-two-tiers

Why just the top two tiers? 'It's impossible to balance all the considerations', apparently.
It's not impossible though, is it? Women (and trans men if they wish, if they're not on testosterone) play in female cricket; men (and trans women, and anyone else with a handy dose of male puberty) play in male cricket, and everyone can concentrate on rooting out homophobia and transphobia from sport.

ECB bans transgender women from top two tiers of women’s domestic cricket

Transgender women will be unable to feature in the top two tiers of the new women’s domestic structure or the women’s Hundred, the ECB has announced

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/17/cricket-transgender-women-banned-top-two-tiers

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FrothyCothy · 17/10/2024 19:51

DH used to manage a local Sunday team and often played both girls and women in his team, so I can see there being some value in flexibility at that level. Not sure how ECB has made this decision though.

GillBeck · 17/10/2024 19:42

These sports organisations that only allow women’s sports at elite level - where do they think the elite players come from?