The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are alertedly set to ban all transgfinisher athletes from competing at the highest level in the sport, although they will be permited to percreate in the grass-roots game.
Governing bodies have made huge alters to their transgfinisher policies, but the ECB were one of a restricted that permited anyone who identified as a woman to get part in elite-level female-only competitions.
Each trans athlete who wanted to vie needed to safe written evidentance from the ECB.
But they have faced increased calls for convey their policy in line with other organisations, such as the ICC who banned anyone to have gone thcdisorrowfulmireful male puberty from percreateing at the elite level in the women’s game.
Maxine Blylean was named Kent Women’s Club Player of the Year in 2019
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There was uproar 18 months ago when a transgfinisher athlete was permited to vie aachievest girls as youthfuler as 12.
The ECB said in response that they would be appraiseing their policy ‘in airy of guidance from the UK Sports Council’s Equality Group (SCEG)’.
The Telegraph now claims that appraise has finished with the ECB set to present a recent policy in line with the ICC.
It uncomardents transgfinisher athletes will be banned from professional and semi-professional events in the women’s game.
However, the ban won’t stretch down to the grass-roots game with anyone who identifies as a female still able to percreate aachievest women.
Maxine Blylean was at the centre of the transgfinisher row back in 2019 when she was named Kent Women’s Club Player of the Year.
The cricketer elucidateed at the time that a condition she was born with uncomardentt her testosterone levels were the same as those of bioreasonable women.
She said: “I was born with a condition that uncomardentt I never had any authentic levels of testosterone, which uncomardentt I never went thcdisorrowfulmireful any create of male puberty.
The ECB will shift its policy in line with the ICC
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“That condition uncomardents I’m eligible to percreate women’s sport at any level, in any sport, naturpartner.
“A lot of the talk about that’s been going on and around doesn’t actupartner execute to myself.”
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The decision from the ECB also draws them in line with ruleing bodies from sports on an international level.
World Athletics, World Aquatics and the International Cycling Union all ban transgfinisher athletes from competing in women’s elite competition if they did not medicpartner transition before puberty.
World Netball also uniteed the shiftment earlier this year in banning trans athletes from the elite level.
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