The first transcricket genderer
Sigh.
Cricket is facing mounting criticism for failing to follow other sports in tightening women’s sport protections after it emerged a transgender player will make her international debut.
Danielle McGahey, an Australian-born player, is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play an official Twenty20 international, representing Canada.
That is, the first man to play on a women’s team.
Sharron Davies, the Olympic medallist swimmer who has been at the forefront of campaigns to protect the integrity of women’s sport, says the situation is “outrageously irresponsible”.
“We’ve been pushing the England and Wales Cricket Board for years to protect females from male biological advantage,” she told Telegraph Sport of campaigns in England to toughen rules. “There are trans-identifying males in the English game right now that have caused damage to young female cricketers. Canada is particularly discriminatory toward their female athletes by allowing males into sports like rugby even against international governing bodies’ safety-first policies.”
And safety of course is not the only issue. Fairness is another.
McGahey detailed how she had undergone the required medical transition in order to meet existing ICC eligibility regulations.
“I am absolutely honoured,” McGahey told the BBC. “To be able to represent my community is something I never dreamt I would be able to do.
He shouldn’t be. He should be absolutely embarrassed and ashamed and crawling with remorse.
An ICC statement said: “We can confirm that Danielle went through the process as required under the ICC’s player eligibility regulations and as a result has been deemed eligible to participate in international women’s cricket on the basis that she satisfies the MTF transgender eligibility criteria.”
Oh go soak your head. Fuck “eligibility regulations” and fuck “deemed eligible” and fuck “she satisfies the male to female criteria.” Fuck all of it. It’s insulting theft of women’s sports so stop pretending it’s anything else.
Apparently, a male Canadian weight-lifter, Avi Silverberg, has just declared himself a woman and smashed the previous Canadian woman’s weight-lifting record, which was held by a trans-woman. The latter is feeling very miffed and sad.
Who, we maight ask, does all the ‘deeming?’ Can the dickhead/s responsible please stand up and show him/their/its self.? And is this just the opening stage of womens’ sport being taken over by fraudsters and fantasisers?
Just as there are various grades of cricket and other sports, so there are there grades of bullshit. And this one is of top quality, first class international standard.
I suppose I should add that Silverberg did this to show up the idiocy of Canada’s policies in this respect, and I suspect he undeclared his ‘womanhood’ afterwards.