The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty.
The ICC said it had taken the decision, following an extensive scientific review and nine-month consultation, to “protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players”.
It joins rugby union, swimming, cycling, athletics and rugby league, who have all gone down a similar path in recent years after citing concerns over fairness or safety.
Women already get their testosterone tested to compete in the women’s division in most sports and trans women don’t seem to have any real advantage over other women after hormones so it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
if there was no issue we would not be talking about the topic in the first place. It seems that multiple sports organizations after mixing trans people with females in women categories lead to issues, I somehow don’t believe that all of them figured it out of transphobia or something. Meaning there was issue in fairness.