ICC bans transgenders from Women’s International cricket matches

The ICC board approved new rules that bar transgender cricketers from playing women’s internationals. After a key change to ICC’s gender eligibility requirements that banned transgenders from participating in women’s internationals, Danielle McGahey, the first transgender to play internationals, has acknowledged “with a very heavy heart” that her international career for Canada “is over”.

The ICC board on Tuesday approved the new rules by which any player who has transitioned from male to female and has been through any form of male puberty will not be allowed to participate in women’s international cricket, regardless of any surgery or gender reassignment treatment they may have undertaken.

ICC CEO Geoff Allardice added: “Inclusivity is incredibly important to us as a sport, but our priority was to protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players.”