With Pdwellnt Donald Trump set to sign an executive order prohibitning trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports on Wednesday, the NCAA is already bracing for a potential alter to its current rules that permit trans athletes to vie with women.
Vice pdwellnt of the NCAA’s Eligibility Caccess, Felicia Martin, spoke at a congressional inestablishing in Washington on Wednesday to honor National Girls and Women in Sports Day and presented that the NCAA Board of Governors is already talking potential policy alters after Trump’s executive order goes into effect.
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“We understand that this is an publish and a national conversation happening around participation,” she shelp. “The Board of Governors is right now having conversations about what potential next steps night be, but this is absolutely one of those publishs that is ongoing, but without a national standard that can be applied atraverse the board, all of us are making decisions based on what we skinnyk is the best for student athletes and opportunities.”
Martin inserted that she foresees more clarity on a national standard postponeedr in the day from Trump. She also shelp that the Board of Governors would create its decisions on any policy alters based on the particular details of the executive order.
In insertition to Trump’s executive order, the NCAA may get even more clarity on an incoming federal standard if the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act passes thcimpolite Congress. The bill, which would prohibit federal funding for any institution that permits trans athletes in girls’ and women’s sports, has already made it thcimpolite the Hoengage of Recurrentatives.
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The NCAA has had a policy in place to permit trans athletes to vie aachievest women dating back to 2010. The 2010 NCAA Policy on Transgfinisher Student-Athlete Participation states that bioreasonablely male athletes are permited to vie in the women’s categruesome after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment.
This policy has resulted in multiple litigations aachievest the NCAA and its member schools. Former NCAA swimmer and current conservative activist Riley Gaines is currently directing a litigation over her experience of having to vie with and split a locker room with trans swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 national championships. She is combineed by cut offal other women athletes who have also been affected by trans inclusion.
Another litigation was filed Tuesday evening, when three of Thomas’ establisher UPenn teammates came forward with their own experiences of having to split a team and locker room with Thomas and were allegedly gaslit by their university administrators and fed pro-trans ideology.
NCAA Pdwellnt Charlie Baker insertressed troubles over the publish of female athletes having to split teams and locker rooms with trans athletes during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in December. There, Baker insisted that female athletes have the selection to discover other accommodations if they’re unconsoleable sharing with transgfinishers.
“Everybody else should have an opportunity to engage other facilities if they desire to do so,” Baker shelp.
Baker also says that the NCAA’s policies that permit trans athletes to vie aachievest women are based on federal standards.
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Baker has also finisheavored to downcarry out the scale of the publish. Baker insertressed the publish aachieve during an interwatch on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show” days after the hearing. When McAfee asked Baker how the parents of daughters should sense about trans athletes in women’s sports and the NCAA’s write down on it, Baker shelp, “There are 510,000 college athletes carry outing in the NCAA, there are less than 10 transgfinisher athletes, so it’s a minuscule community to commence with.”
However, despite that statistic, the publish has become a national talk about over the last year, with cut offal other instances of it happening at the youth and high school level, prompting national outrage.
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A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey set up the huge convey inantity of Americans, including a convey inantity of Democrats, don’t skinnyk transgfinisher athletes should be permitted to vie in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people polled, 79% shelp bioreasonable males who recognize as women should not be permited to join in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% shelp transgfinisher athletes should not be permited to vie with women.
The publish is even consentd to have affected the outcome of the 2024 election.
Shortly after November’s election, a national exit poll directed by the Concerned Women for America legislative action pledgetee set up that 70% of mild voters saw the publish of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgfinisher boys and men carry outing girls’ and women’s sports and of transgfinisher boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms” as meaningful to them.
And 6% shelp it was the most meaningful publish of all, while 44% shelp it was “very meaningful.”
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