Trans women are to be banned from female football, netball and cricket as a result of last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling that sex is based on biology. Women's rights campaigners celebrated a hat-trick of victories for fairness and safety last night after the leading sports governing bodies abandoned their 'inclusive' policies. In a major shift that means those born male will no longer be allowed to play in the women's game, the Football Association said it was changing its policy next month. Just last month, the FA said transgender women, of whom about 30 are registered as players in England – could play the women's game subject to a limit on their testosterone levels. Shortly afterwards, England Netball – which had let trans women play in friendlies against female opponents – said it would introduce three distinct categories, with women's teams reserved 'for players born female'. From September, a mixed category will allow players 'to compete under the gender with which they identify'. Today, the England and Wales Cricket Board, which lets trans women compete in grassroots female teams but not at elite level, is expected to follow suit after taking legal advice. Campaigners welcomed the changes but said it should not have taken the case heard in Britain's highest court to make sporting bodies see sense. Rugby, swimming, athletics, cycling and hockey banned trans women from female teams and events long before the Supreme Court ruling. The pressure group Fair Play For Women said: 'They think it's all over. It is now! Today the trans stranglehold on women's sport ended.' Its director Nicola Williams said: 'We scored a hat-trick today, but it's pretty clear we have two kinds of sport – brave sports like rugby and swimming choosing fairness for women early on... or sports forced to change. Today ends a shameful period in sport.' But Natalie Washington, of the pro-trans group Football Vs Transphobia, said trans women were likely to give up football. Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies said: 'This is great news for the safety and fairness of all our girls and women in football. Every sport must follow suit.' Fiona McAnena, of the charity Sex Matters said the FA's decision was 'long overdue', adding: 'The FA has had ample evidence of the harms to women and girls caused by its nonsensical policy of letting men who identify as women play in women's teams.' No 10 said: 'It's up to each sport to set policies... in line with the law. The Supreme Court judgment brought welcome clarity.' Last week, Ultimate Pool Group, which governs 8-ball pool, banned trans women from its female category after two male-born players got to a final. Parkrun still lets those in its weekly runs self-ID, with one trans woman said to have come first in 56 events in the female category in 18 months. The City of London Corporation, which runs women-only Hampstead Heath Ladies' Pond in north London, said it would not reverse its inclusive policy and ban trans women from swimming and changing rooms until it had guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.