Always say “trans” when you mean “male”
Danielle McGahey: Transgender cricketer set to play in women’s T20 international for Canada
That is, male cricketer set to play in women’s T20 international for Canada.
Canada’s Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play in an official international match.
That is, Canada’s Danielle McGahey is set to become the first male cricketer to play in an official international women’s match.
The 29-year-old opening batter has fulfilled all of the eligibility criteria the International Cricket Council (ICC) has for male-to-female transgender players before the event in Los Angeles from 4-11 September.
Which doesn’t change the fact that he’s a man playing on a women’s team.
McGahey’s participation comes despite other sports – including athletics, cycling, swimming and both codes of rugby – banning transgender women from taking part in elite women’s competition.
That is, cricket is still letting men who claim to be women cheat, while other sports have stopped doing that.
A spokeswoman for the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) – a group which says it seeks to “defend the sex-based rights of women” – said transgender women had a “significant advantage” over athletes whose sex is recorded as female at birth, and called the ICC’s policy “unfair and unsafe”.
BBC carefully avoids admitting McGahey is a man while sneering that the WRN “says” it seeks to defend women’s rights. Skepticism for us, ValiDation for them.
McGahey emigrated from Australia to Canada in February 2020, socially transitioned to a woman in November 2020 and started medically transitioning in May 2021.
McGahey emigrated from Australia to Canada in February 2020, socially transitioned to a horse in November 2020, and started medically transitioning in May 2021.
McGahey told BBC Sport: “I am absolutely honoured. To be able to represent my community is something I never dreamed I would be able to do.”
Did he ever dream he would be able to intrude on women’s sport? I bet he did. I bet it was one of his favorite fantasies.
Let him do that. He’ll surely come in at last place in all the horse races.
Why, when it’s a male on a women’s team, is it “trans” rather than “member of the LGBT community”? Why, when someone is same-sex attracted, is it never “gay” or “lesbian” but instead “member of the LGBT community”? That’s the real “don’t say gay”, I’d say.