An Open Letter to the ICC from a Trans Cricketer

Hi! My name is Billie, and I am a transgender cricketer living in Boston, Massachusetts. Make no mistake, I am a remarkably average player, but I was still hurt by the ICC’s decision to ban transgender women from playing international cricket in women’s teams. I want you to understand why it is effectively a blanket ban on all transgender women from international cricket. The ICC decision states that transwomen that have gone through ‘any version of male puberty’ are banned from playing in those teams, irrespective of surgeries, hormones, or other gender-affirming care. The extent to which this is based on science, or how ‘we’ will be measured scientifically seems unclear. Yet it needs to be clear, for there are trans people that will fall outside of the categories suggested. No matter what the scientific rationale of the ICC ends up being, it should be closely scrutinized and fiercely debated because it is unlikely to be born of (or intersect with) modern trans science, thought, or medicine. <a href="https://billieburton.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-the-icc-from-a-trans-cricketer-87d2b3c299f8">Read More</a>