Safeguarding is of course incredibly important here and I have direct experience of sharing a female changing area with a biological male cricketer who identifies as a trans-woman.
NOBODY discusses this openly at the club. In fact you often don't know whether you are playing with or against a man. It is not acceptable to ask let alone object, for fear of being labelled a bigot and because the guidelines from ECB make it acceptable to play in the category in which you identify and 'live' (whatever that means). I'm absoutely not saying she means to cause harm or discomfort but she is causing the latter and because no-one is discussing it she may be under the impression that everyone is ok with it. I'm not. I can't speak for others.
THE ECB is WAY behind the curve on this perhaps because many adult women play on men's teams (either because they're exceptionally good or because they are making up numbers) which on the face of it justifies the argument that there is little physiological benefit to men over women in cricket.
Nonsense of course, by every respected science-based study there are significant physical advantages to men who have gone through puberty (height, limb length, hand span, explosive power, grip strength, speed, lung capacity etc), nevertheless the rule allows trans-women to compete not only in the Women's category, but also in the Open/Mixed category (most clubs have one or more of these), yet some insist on playing in the Women's, for obvious reasons. Conversely, a trans-man, who may only play in the Open and Men's categories, will have been through female puberty and will bring their physiological disadvantage into the male game.
We're putting the needs of a trans-woman to be accepted or affirmed over the needs of women and girls to have protected female-only spaces and to compete on a level playing field - Bonkers.
Mostly my objection is that what teeny tiny bit of the sports pie women have is now being further diminished by allowing biological men to usurp women and girls on teams, in competition and in remuneration. Must we wait until womens' elite sports teams and medal tables are dominated by men (you may not necessarily know you are watching male athletes compete as female) or some poor girl or woman gets seriously injured, before we push back?
I suspect that it will take Dads seeing their daughters lose out or hearing that they are sharing changing rooms with adult males before this blows wide open and we can have an honest discussion about it. By then sadly, many young girls may have been put off playing cricket altogether.
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