Women are quitting cricket and being put in danger by the governing physique’s refusal to ban transgender girls from beginner feminine leagues, the mom of a younger participant has claimed.
The English and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) banned trans girls – who’re biologically male – from feminine skilled competitions final October however allowed them to proceed at grassroots degree.
However the involved mom, who desires to stay nameless, has implored them to increase the ban to beginner cricket.Â
In an impassioned letter, she described ladies being decreased to tears, demoralised and dropping out of matches after being compelled to play towards boys figuring out as feminine.
She detailed how her ten-year-old daughter performed at an beneath 13 occasion final summer season the place two boys who recognized as feminine had been within the opposing group.
She claims one 12-year-old ‘cried within the timber’ as a result of their presence ‘scared her, intimidated her and made her really feel uncomfortable and nugatory’.Â
This similar lady has mentioned she doesn’t need to play if she has to compete towards organic males, with others contemplating following go well with, the mum or dad alleged.
In a separate letter to SEEN Sport, a marketing campaign group to maintain feminine sports activities single intercourse, she mentioned the male-born gamers had been nonetheless ‘dressed as boys’ and that one mum or dad accused one other of inflicting humiliation by shouting ‘good catch, lad’ when a ‘trans’ participant caught the ball.
The English and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) banned transgender girls from feminine skilled competitions final October however allowed them to proceed at grassroots degree
The involved mom, who desires to stay nameless, has implored them to increase the ban to beginner cricket. Pictured:Â Rainbow Laces colors on the stumps at Headingley in 2023
She additionally railed towards ECB steering that trans individuals ought to have entry to altering rooms, showers and bathrooms comparable to the gender they determine as.
She wrote: ‘I encourage each feminine who receives this letter to face an over from a really huge man with a robust bowl – after which think about being a toddler and going through one thing equal; somebody larger, stronger, sooner and extra highly effective than you.’
The ECB resolution to ban anybody who has ‘undergone male puberty’ from elite girls’s home cricket from 2025 adopted the Worldwide Cricket Council’s lead.Â
The physique didn’t prolong its ban to beginner groups because it relied on a ‘disparity coverage’, the place officers ought to take steps equivalent to ‘requesting {that a} stronger participant train warning’ if they’re involved.
Su Wong at SEEN Sport mentioned: ‘The ECB have allowed equity for round 300 professionals, however not for 33,000 grassroots feminine gamers.’
The ECB mentioned: ‘We aren’t conscious of some other complaints raised by dad and mom on the times in query and we’ve got not been introduced with proof of any security, disparity or safeguarding points.’