The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Friday banned transgenders from competing in women’s and girls’ matches with immediate effect, complying with a recent Supreme Court ruling that excludes them from the legal definition of women.

The ECB’s decision came less than 24 hours after the Football Association (FA) took a similar resolution. “With immediate effect, only those whose biological sex is female will be eligible to play in women’s cricket and girls’ cricket matches. Transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket,” the ECB 
statement said.