#Transprejudice in sports.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that under its new transgender participation policy, and moving forward, it will bar transgender women from the top two tiers of women’s cricket in England, as well as the women’s Hundred.
In 2023, the International Cricket Council (ICC) approved new gender eligibility regulations that ban any male or female participant who underwent any form of male puberty from participating in the international women’s game.
Although ECB’s previously allowed transgender women to compete in female-only competition if they had clearance from the cricket board, it decided that from 2025, it will adopt the same anti-transgender policy as the ICC.
“This provides consistency, given that a primary purpose of the top end of the domestic structure is to produce international players,” the ECB stated.
A more detailed policy is supposedly being developed, hoped to be available in time for the 2025 season.
The new ECB rules will not apply to grass-roots cricket.
Elsewhere, Cricket Australia allows transgender women to compete in the elite domestic women’s game as long as they have maintained testosterone levels of less than 10 nanograms per deciliter for 12 months before joining any team.
