The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty.

The ICC said it had taken the decision, following an extensive scientific review and nine-month consultation, to “protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players”.

It joins rugby union, swimming, cycling, athletics and rugby league, who have all gone down a similar path in recent years after citing concerns over fairness or safety.

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    1 year ago

    Oh my god get over yourself cis is not offensive.

    Fucking cislord scum.

    Now that? That would be offensive.

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        1 year ago

        You can find anything offensive, but it doesn’t mean that social norms have to accept it. Do you take offense to being called your race? What about doctors using medical terminology to describe something like your muscles? These are the same things: descriptive words that were created without your input that you have no say in. It’s language, and it’s weird to get offended by a word being used in a non-inflammatory way.

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        1 year ago

        If you’re offended by being a homosapien that doesn’t change what you are. Cisgender is a rational scientific term. See transalpine Gaul and cisalpine Gaul for a reference as to why.

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        1 year ago

        You’re welcome, my cis friend. (I’m also cis, just not a fucking baby about it its not hard)

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        1 year ago

        I mean you can be offended by whatever you want.

        But “cis” is a Latin prefix which is simply the antonym of “trans”. It holds absolutely no value judgement.

        So it’s a strange thing to find offensive.