@UrbanGardener https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/02/17/parents-demands-answers-ecb-trans-woman-competing-against-girls/
A mother of one girl in an Under-13 county squad acknowledged she had genuine worries about her daughter’s safety, arguing it was “inappropriate” for an adult with the physiological benefits of male puberty to be included in the same league. Another parent of a 12-year-old girl described fears that she and her team-mates would “give up on cricket, because they become so frightened about having to face bowling and fielding of that strength and force. Many girls at this age are only just starting hard-ball cricket, and one incident is enough to turn them off the game.”
@Chronic-Yonic @sullybiker @UrbanGardener I think it’s not that he is playing on an U13 team, it’s that U13 girls are playing on an adult women’s team. He still shouldn’t be on the women’s team, but I think the Telegraph is being a bit naughty with the way they’re framing it.
@sullybiker @Flick @UrbanGardener If equity is one of the goals, their analysis is pretty damn shallow.
We all know in here the physical differences in strength and other things between males and females.
But a man plays on a girls’ team, he automatically stole a place that belonged to a girl. So yeah, equity…
Like Vortex said, the ECB is paedo friendly, so that doesn’t help either.