Anaya Bangar, former Indian cricketer and coach Sanjay Bangar’s little one, final 12 months shared a journey of transformation submit a hormonal alternative remedy and gender reaffirming surgical procedure. Anaya, who was previously specifically named Aryan, is an athlete and performed age-group cricket following Sanjay Bangar’s footsteps. However Anaya revealed that there have been important hurdles in pursuing cricket profession after the gender reaffirming surgical procedure. Anaya lives in the UK at present.
Anaya’s journey has not been straightforward in any respect from the very starting. In a latest interview, Anaya revealed the ‘poisonous masculinity’ in cricket world.
Within the interview, given to Lallantop, Anaya was requested: “When do you get to grasp that ‘I’m within the unsuitable chosen gender?'”
“For me it was once I was eight or 9 years previous, I used to select garments from my mother’s cabinet and put on them. Then, I used to look into the mirror and say, ‘I’m a woman. I wish to be a woman’,” Anaya mentioned.
“I performed with some well-known cricketers now like Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Yashasvi Jaiswal. I needed to preserve secrecy about myself as a result of dad is a well-known determine. Cricket world is stuffed with insecurity and poisonous masculinity.”
Anaya was then requested concerning the response of fellow cricketers after she underwent gender reaffirmation surgical procedure. “There was assist and there have been some harassment as properly,” Anaya mentioned.
“What sort of harassment?” the anchor requested.
“There have been a number of cricketers who randomly despatched me nude photos of them,” Anaya replied.
Anaya then went on to discuss an individual, who used to take pleasure in verbal abuse. “The particular person used to offer gaalis in entrance of everyone. The identical particular person then used to come back and sit beside me and ask for my photographs. There was one other occasion, once I was in India, I instructed a puraane (veteran) cricketer about my scenario. He instructed me let’s go within the automobile, I wish to sleep with you.”
Similar to Bangar, Anaya can also be a cricketer who has represented Islam Gymkhana in native membership cricket. Aside from this, the left-handed batter has additionally performed for the Hinckley Cricket Membership in Leicestershire.
Nonetheless, in November 2023, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) said transgender athletes won’t be allowed to take part in ladies’s cricket.
“Inclusivity is extremely vital to us as a sport, however our precedence was to guard the integrity of the worldwide ladies’s sport and the security of gamers,” said then ICC CEO Geoff Allardice.
Taking to Instagram, Anaya additionally shared a prolonged submit to precise disappointment over ICC’s new rule.
Anaya (beforehand Aryan) is at present residing in Manchester and could be very energetic on Instagram and at all times retains the followers up to date.
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