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Transgender rights activists are taking legal action against the ban on those born male playing in women’s cricket.
The Good Law Project, led by activist lawyer Jolyon Maugham, has written to the England and Wales Cricket Board demanding it reverse a decision taken just over a fortnight after April’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.
The Good Law Project appears to have singled out cricket because of it being a non-contact sport, despite the risk of transgender women having strength and speed advantages over those born female.
The Good Law Project is also taking the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to court, accusing it of “violating” trans people’s rights to privacy.
The group, which is challenging interim guidance issued by the EHRC following the Supreme Court ruling, has been granted a two-day hearing in the High Court in November.
Maugham said in August: “The guidance amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives.
“The EHRC’s guidance is subject to legal challenge – a hearing is scheduled for later this year – and a court will decide whether it is compatible with the Equality Act.
Source: English cricket facing legal action over transgender ban
Cricket is hardly a non contact sport. Non contact sports don’t require pads and helmets.
Sadly true, just look at this article from yesterday: https://theconversation.com/yes-cricket-is-a-contact-sport-we-have-safety-gear-but-we-need-to-do-more-268650