New Delhi, May 2 -- The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Friday that transgender women will be barred from competing in all levels of women's cricket with immediate effect.

The English cricket board made the announcement on their website, stating that "only those whose biological sex is female" will be allowed to play in their domestic system for women's and girls' cricket.

This announcement comes on the back of a ruling in the UK's Supreme Court on 15 April, which stated that the legal definition of a woman is based on the biological sex.

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