{"id":13769,"date":"2023-11-21T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:26:10","slug":"transgender-women-have-been-barred-from-playing-in-international-womens-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13769","title":{"rendered":"Transgender women have been barred from playing in international women\u2019s cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Only months after becoming the first transgender person to play international cricket, Danielle McGahey will no longer be able represent the Canadian women&#8217;s team under the latest changes to eligibility by the International Cricket Council.  The ruling is similar to other sports governing bodies that have already banned transgender women from international competition or are considering doing so.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By The Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in international women\u2019s cricket, the sport\u2019s governing body said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Cricket Council said the \u201cnew gender eligibility regulation,\u201d which was approved by board members, had been imposed to protect the integrity of women\u2019s cricket and was also made on safety grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMale-to-female participants who have undergone male puberty will not be eligible to compete in the international women\u2019s game,\u201d the ICC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/2023\/11\/21\/transgender-women-have-been-barred-from-playing-in-international-womens-cricket\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only months after becoming the first transgender person to play international cricket, Danielle McGahey will no longer be able represent the Canadian women&#8217;s team under the latest changes to eligibility by the International Cricket Council. The ruling is similar to other sports governing bodies that have already banned transgender women from international competition or are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13770,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions\/13770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}