I'm honestly just glad the title isn't some sleazy white lie shit like "Transgender women banned from playing international women's cricket" as they often do. Yes, trans-identified men shouldn't play in women's sport. They can play all the sport they like otherwise.

International sports governing bodies aren't global dictators that have the right to issue edicts saying how sports should be run at every level within every country on earth. The major world governing bodies like the International Cricket Council, World Athletics, FINA/World Aquatics, FIFA only have legal jurisdiction over the particular events they are in charge of - which are usually the elite international competitions.

Outside that context, governance of sport is done by each country's own national sports federations and associations - and by other orgs such as provinical, state and school sports governing bodies.

Many national, continental, regional, provincial, state, county, local sports federations decide to adopt, or be influenced by, the rules and regulations of the international governing bodies like ICC. But most of the world's nearly 200 different individual nations (and policy orgs that have jurisdiction over different areas and levels of sport within each nation) want the autonomy to decide many aspects of sports eligibility and governance for themselves in keeping with their own laws and customs.

God help us, I have no idea. There's a very powerful one in some back room. It's sad, bewildering, and noxious.

Very few things enrage me as much as a man claiming womanhood must include men, and then hiring a surrogate to have his babies. I don't like to say "they don't see us as human" because I think it's overdramatic for most situations, but that specific series of events reveals the man does not see us as human.

When it benefits us to be able to define and organize amongst ourselves they oppose it because it is more important our bodies, organizations, language, and events are used to validate men with mental illness. When it benefits him to acknowledge there is a difference between men and women he has no problem remembering.

Tom says he used to "yearn for that connection that goes from your past to your future and renting a woman surrogacy was one of the ways we could do it."

And his husband: "The American screenwriter explained how he and Tom went over to the US to carry out their surrogacy journey, as they felt that the law on surrogacy is clearer there than it is here in the UK.

‘Good clear law creates good behaviour and it creates clear understanding,’ he said. ‘We both thought, ‘There are all these risks in this. Let’s keep ourselves, our surrogate and our eventual child as safe as possible. Lets’ go where there is the best law.’"

These laws are not better for the surrogate or child. They are better for the people renting the woman's body and purchasing her baby.

Let's aim for 50% of surrogates to be men. It will reduce the chance their $120,000 results in a baby by 50%, but it is fair and inclusive. How does that sound Tom? Or are you only in favor of inclusion when it doesn't affect you?

They are saying if Canada wants to allow TiMs in their domestic women's leagues, they are free to do so, but if they wanna field a team to play International matches( where the real money is) , they can't