Transwomen will no longer be able to participate in women’s international cricket.
Following a nine-month consultation process with the sport’s stakeholders, the ICC board on Tuesday approved a change to its gender eligibility regulations.
Any cricketer who has transitioned from male to female and been through any form of male puberty is now ineligible for women’s national team selection regardless of any surgery or gender reassignment treatment they may have undertaken.
Danielle McGahey recently became the first transgender cricketer to feature in international cricket earlier this year when she played for Canada in the Women’s T20 Americas Qualifier.
The ICC said its decision was “based on the following principles (in order of priority), protection of the integrity of the women’s game, safety, fairness and inclusion” and that “the gender eligibility at domestic level is a matter for each individual member board, which may be impacted by local legislation.”
“The regulations will be reviewed within two years,” the statement added.
