NEW DELHI:
Transgender girls who’ve been via male puberty have been barred from worldwide girls’s cricket underneath new rules introduced by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday.
In September, Canada’s Danielle McGahey grew to become the primary transgender cricketer to participate in an official worldwide match.
Transgender participation has develop into a hot-button difficulty as totally different sports activities attempt to stability inclusivity with making certain honest competitors.
Worldwide governing our bodies in biking and athletics have additionally banned transgender rivals.
The ICC board, assembly within the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad, mentioned the brand new coverage, which takes impact instantly, is aimed toward “safety of the integrity of the ladies’s recreation, security, equity and inclusion”.
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“Any male to feminine members who’ve been via any type of male puberty is not going to be eligible to take part within the worldwide girls’s recreation no matter any surgical procedure or gender reassignment remedy they might have undertaken,” it mentioned.
The rules, which comply with a nine-month session course of, will probably be reviewed inside two years.
The overview relates solely to gender eligibility for worldwide girls’s cricket. The coverage at home stage is a matter for every particular person member board.
ICC chief govt Geoff Allardice mentioned: “The adjustments to the gender eligibility rules resulted from an in depth session course of and is based in science and aligned with the core rules developed in the course of the overview.
“Inclusivity is extremely vital to us as a sport, however our precedence was to guard the integrity of the worldwide girls’s recreation and the security of gamers.”