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Wah wah wah. 'Snot fair.

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Gymnopedie · 08/05/2025 19:04

‘It’s devastating’: Trans cricketers feel betrayed by the game they love

They can't be their authentic selves any more.

“Most sports are not an environment trans people want to be in. Open cricket is predominantly men and is not the nicest place for women to play cricket. It involves prejudice."

And women's sports are for women. They're not an environment they want men in.

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user2848502016 · 08/05/2025 19:57

Oh for goodness sake, cricket is one of the sports that has a good amount of mixed teams - this is just proof that they don’t really care about sport they just don’t want women to have their own teams.
If they don’t feel comfortable on a mixed team with other men then that’s a man problem! Nothing at all to do with women

FortyElephants · 08/05/2025 19:39

2024onwardsandup · 08/05/2025 19:31

What about trans men?

They can play on both women's and mixed teams. Very few trans men play on men's sports teams, oddly enough

LlynTegid · 08/05/2025 19:34

MyrtleLion · 08/05/2025 19:32

But I only feel my authentic self if I can play cricket with a really wide bat and a soft ball bowled really gently and I can saunter down the crease. Why don't I get to play my favourite kind of cricket? It's NOT FAIR and it's DEFINITELY NOT cheating!

Edited

I hope you were being ironic. Otherwise I think you are being unfair to women cricketers, even though I agree 100% that those born male should not take part in the women's game.

Go and watch a game of women's cricket and you will see.

MyrtleLion · 08/05/2025 19:32

But I only feel my authentic self if I can play cricket with a really wide bat and a soft ball bowled really gently and I can saunter down the crease. Why don't I get to play my favourite kind of cricket? It's NOT FAIR and it's DEFINITELY NOT cheating!

2024onwardsandup · 08/05/2025 19:31

What about trans men?

Shadowsunray · 08/05/2025 19:29

I honestly do not give a damn about the feelings of male cheats who were colonising women's sport. Thrilled they have been booted out but sick and tired of hearing their pathetic whingeing.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 08/05/2025 19:28

For Amelia Short, Jamie Hughes, Alice, and Anaya Bangar, women’s cricket promised to be a place where they could thrive as their true selves

fellas, your true selves are men. play men's cricket or the open category. why is it women's job to help you be your imaginary true self?

Theeyeballsinthesky · 08/05/2025 19:28

Oh dear my violin is so tiny I can’t seem to find it

Helleofabore · 08/05/2025 19:26

Oh dear, oh dear. How very sad that they feel that they cannot play as the sex they are!

It must have been so freeing to use a lighter bat and ball, and have shorter boundaries!! And face slower bowlers.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 08/05/2025 19:23

It never seems to occur to them that they make the women uncomfortable does it? It's all me me me and about how they feel.

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Gymnopedie · 08/05/2025 19:14

^

I should have said. Link is the i paper via MSN.

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