The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will ban transgender women from playing at the elite level of women’s domestic cricket from 2025.
Any player who has gone through male puberty will not be eligible to feature in the top two tiers of the women’s game.
The new regulations will also apply to The Hundred’s women’s competition, but transgender women will be eligible to play in tier three of the domestic structure, which comprises traditionally lower-level counties, and in recreational cricket.
It follows the decision from the International Cricket Council (ICC) in November 2023 to ban transgender women who have gone through male puberty from playing international women’s matches.
The ECB said it had carried out an “extensive consultation” and considered the interaction between “fairness, safety and inclusion” before reaching a conclusion.
“Having considered wide-ranging views gathered during the consultation, as well as in consultations conducted during 2023, and the relevant science and medical evidence, the ECB has decided that from 2025 it will adopt the same approach as the ICC for women’s professional domestic cricket,” the ECB said.
“This provides consistency, given that a primary purpose of the top end of the domestic structure is to produce international players.”
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