Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play an official Twenty20 international. The 29-year old Australian-born opening batsman has been named in the Canadian women’s squad that will take on Brazil, Argentina and the USA next week in Los Angeles. The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Americas Region Qualifier is hardly the Ashes, but at stake is a possible place in the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
McGahey moved to Canada in 2020 and, it seems, promptly transitioned. Is there something in the Canadian water? But joking aside, Justin Trudeau’s Canada has, it seems, garnered a reputation for yielding to transgender ideology. Now, a Canadian woman has lost out, and the integrity of women’s cricket is at risk.
If men’s cricket is good enough for the women who take part, then it is surely also good enough for McGahey
While other sports have woken up to the folly of allowing transwomen to compete in women’s sports, cricket has been asleep at the wheel.
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