The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) resolution to provide a ruling towards the eligibility of transgender girls gamers to take part has come as a physique blow to the only transgender participant on the planet, Danielle McGahey of Canada. McGahey, who grew to become the primary transgender participant to function in girls’s cricket throughout America’s T20 qualifiers for the following yr’s T20 World Cup, introduced her retirement from cricket a day after ICC introduced its resolution in keeping with the brand new gender eligibility regulation.
McGahey in a heartbreaking publish mentioned that her worldwide profession has ended shortly after it began whereas saying that ICC’s resolution gave out a mistaken message that individuals like her/them don’t belong within the sport. However, she wasn’t going to again down and can preserve combating.
“Following the ICC’s resolution this morning, it is with a really heavy coronary heart that I have to say that my worldwide cricketing profession is over. As shortly because it begun, it should now finish. Thank you a lot to everyone who has supported me in my journey, from my all of my teammates, the entire opposition, the cricketing neighborhood, and my sponsor.
“While I maintain my opinions on the ICC’s resolution, they’re irrelevant. What issues is the message being despatched to hundreds of thousands of trans girls right now, a messaging say that we don’t belong. I promise I cannot cease combating for equality for us in our sport, we deserve the precise to play cricket on the highest degree, we usually are not a menace to the integrity or security of the game.
“Never stop fighting!!,” McGahey added.
“Inclusivity is incredibly important to us as a sport, but our priority was to protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players,” ICC CEO Geoff Allardice mentioned in a press release as reasoning for his or her resolution.
McGahey performed six T20Is for Canada and scored 118 runs with a highest of 48.
