The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will ban transgender girls from enjoying on the elite degree of girls’s home cricket from 2025.
Any participant who has gone by means of male puberty won’t be eligible to function within the high two tiers of the ladies’s sport.
The brand new rules will even apply to The Hundred’s girls’s competitors, however transgender girls might be eligible to play in tier three of the home construction, which contains historically lower-level counties, and in leisure cricket.
It follows the choice from the International Cricket Council (ICC) in November 2023 to ban transgender girls who’ve gone by means of male puberty from enjoying worldwide girls’s matches.
The ECB stated it had carried out an “intensive session” and regarded the interplay between “equity, security and inclusion” earlier than reaching a conclusion.
“Having thought of wide-ranging views gathered through the session, in addition to in consultations performed throughout 2023, and the related science and medical proof, the ECB has determined that from 2025 it’s going to undertake the identical method because the ICC for girls’s skilled home cricket,” the ECB stated.
“This offers consistency, given {that a} major function of the highest finish of the home construction is to supply worldwide gamers.”