What does “female only” mean?
Fair Play for Women on Twitter points out that it’s not just Australian cricket.
We’ve all been stunned at the audacity of Australian Cricket opening up the women’s game to males …. but the English Cricket Board @ECB_cricket has been doing exactly the same.
https://pulse-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com/ecb/document/2019/04/26/3bb659af-9a7d-4ffa-810d-7fae32959ee6/Non-First-Class-ECB-Regulations-Transgender-2019.pdf
Bam, just like that.
7.1 female only – a cricket competition, league or match governed by the ECB which are available for a woman or a trans woman to compete in;
So not “female only” AT ALL but female plus whatever male feels like claiming to be a trans woman for the purposes of playing cricket against women.
11.3 a trans woman may compete in any open competition, league or match or any female only competition, league or match and should be accepted in the gender in which they present;
So not “female only” AT ALL but female plus whatever male feels like forcing himself on women.
They should just come right out and say they’re not going to have female only any more.
At some point, absurdities like this eventually collapse under their own weight.
Don’t they?
Not the ones that are protected by religion. The trans thing (even more than a lot of morally charged causes) has a quasireligious structure.
Probably yes, but in the meantime girls and women are displaced and supplanted by trans identified men while they wait for “eventually” to happen.
And records are being set in women’s sports that no woman will have a chance of breaking if sanity does ever return. Unless they wipe those records, women will remain forever second best (or fifth best by the time they’ve got all the records – if that).