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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are these trans women dominating women sports leagues in the same room with us?

Serious response: look for statistics for trans women consistently kicking cis women out of cis sports to the point your position predicts they would. They don't exist. Sports leagues that allow trans women require them to undergo hormone therapy for specific amounts of time, which levels the playing field. Ironically, this requirement is preventing cis women from competing.

Personally, I don't give a shit about sports, but anyone with a minimum of intellectual honesty understands that if the claim

Trans women out-compete cis women in nearly all sports they are allowed in. Its nonsense to say otherwise.

were to be true, it would be easy to find outrageous situations where all athletes with any possibility of winning in certain leagues would be trans women, but these cases don't exist. The closest thing this kind of arguments are accompanied by are specific cases of trans athletes who are successful, which must necessarily exist due to statistics, unless what you want are ludicrous rules that forbid them from participating no matter the reality of their physiology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago