hes and other figures involved in grassroots cricket included avoiding the use of “collective terms” such as “boys” and “ladies” and considering “alternatives e.g. ‘players’, ‘team’, ‘everyone’, ‘folks’.” The presentation also stated: “Assume people choose the facilities that are the best fit for them.”
Further guidance, by Gendered Intelligence, which was distributed by the ECB following the seminar, included a document entitled Including Trans People and Non-Binary People in Grassroots Sport, which claimed it is a “myth” trans women are “disproportionately tall, heavy and strong, and dangerous to play with or against”.
“Neither safety nor fairness are absolute, and both are contextual,” the report added.
“We need to examine our understandings of what constitutes fairness and what creates safety and apply those understandings to everyone.”
Indeed we do. Which means understanding that men should not be allowed in women's sport. That's fairness.
It further advised that trans women should be allowed to access female facilities such as changing rooms and toilets, while reiterating the point that clubs should be encouraged to practice “sharing pronouns” and avoid terms such as “ladies” and “lads”.
And the ECB goes along with this. If they see the problem at professional and semi-professional level, why don't they see it at the recreational level? – where, as the article notes, girls are being put off cricket by having to face men who bowl a lot faster and hit the ball a lot harder. They seem to be seduced by the siren calls of inclusivity – which of course is inclusivity for a few man, but exclusivity for the girls.
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