Transgender women are to be banned outright from women’s and ladies’ cricket in England and Wales.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) mentioned on Friday (May 2, 2025) that it had up to date its earlier restrictions following a U.Ok. Supreme Court ruling final month.
“With immediate effect, only those whose biological sex is female will be eligible to play in women’s cricket and girls’ cricket matches”, the ECB mentioned Friday. “Transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket.”
The announcement comes a day after transgender athletes have been banned from playing on women’s soccer groups in England and Scotland by the Football Association.
Transgender women have been already banned from the highest two tiers of elite women’s cricket from the beginning of this yr however had been permitted to compete within the women’s recreation at decrease ranges together with leisure cricket.
No longer
The U.Ok.’s highest courtroom issued a ruling two weeks in the past that outlined a girl for anti-discrimination functions as somebody born biologically feminine. The head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission mentioned after the ruling that transgender women could be excluded from women’s bathrooms, hospital wards and sports activities groups.
While the ruling was cheered by some feminist teams, it has been condemned by trans-rights teams who mentioned it could have a broad and detrimental affect on every day life.
The situation has been polarising within the U.Ok. and past, significantly within the United States, the place President Donald Trump has signed govt orders to ban participation of transgender athletes in sports activities and to make use of a inflexible definition of the sexes, reasonably than gender, for federal authorities functions. The orders are being challenged in courtroom.
Published – May 02, 2025 06:15 pm IST
