NCAA Adopts New Transgender Policy Allowing Individual Sports to Set Eligibility
“transgender participation for each sport will be determined by the policy for the sport’s national governing body, subject to review and recommendation by an NCAA committee to the Board of Governors”
The success of the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at UPenn has spurred the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to adopt a new policy on transgender athletes.
The new plan involves allowing individual sports to determine eligibility on their own. It sounds a bit like they’re passing the buck.
CBS News reports:
NCAA adopts new policy for transgender athletes, letting each sport set eligibility requirements
The NCAA has adopted a sport-by-sport approach for transgender athletes, bringing the organization in line with the U.S. and International Olympic Committees.
Under the new guidelines, approved by the NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday, transgender participation for each sport will be determined by the policy for the sport’s national governing body, subject to review and recommendation by an NCAA committee to the Board of Governors.
When there is no national governing body, that sport’s international federation policy would be in place. If there is no international federation policy, previously established IOC policy criteria would take over.
“Approximately 80% of U.S. Olympians are either current or former college athletes,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a release. “This policy alignment provides consistency and further strengthens the relationship between college sports and the U.S. Olympics.”
The NCAA policy is effective immediately, beginning with the 2022 winter championships.
NCAA rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Penn swimmer Lia Thomas started smashing records this year. She was on the men’s team her first three years, but she is competing for the women this season after transitioning.
The Independent Women’s Forum is not impressed with this decision:
IWLC And IWF Condemn NCAA Decision To Pass The Buck On Transgender Issue
Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC) and Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) condemn the decision by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Wednesday to wash its hands of responsibility for determining who can participate in women’s sports. In so doing, the NCAA once again put female athletes last.
The NCAA Board of Governors voted to adopt a sport-by-sport approach to transgender participation in women’s sports. The new policy, which is effective immediately, strongly endorses the participation of male-bodied athletes in women’s sports but asks the governing body for each sport to set particular testosterone requirements.
A comprehensive review of the scientific literature released last summer by IWLCIWLC and IWF reveals that hormone therapy does not eliminate the male athletic advantage over females. The report also concludes that the participation of biological males in women’s sports takes away opportunities for women to merely compete. This violates Title IX, the federal law that guarantees equal educational opportunities for women, including in athletics.
Even Caitlyn Jenner is calling them out.
Caitlyn Jenner says NCAA transgender participation policy a symptom of a 'woke world gone wild'https://t.co/6FzelZoz4J
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 20, 2022
Funny how all that talk from the left about a “War on Women” a few years ago is nowhere to be found today.
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There’s still an NCAA? I’m not sure what they do any more exactly except speak in front of microphones and enforce nothing whatsoever.
Put their thumbs on the competition by “investigations”?
And charge dues to the schools.
This sport-by-sport determination is nothing more than passing the buck.
Nobody wants to be accountable anymore.
They exist to kick hard questions down the road. Cowards.
What are the odds that any sport which sets the eligability to biological sex will end up disfavored by the organization?
Who are these stupid people? I can’t wrap my mind around this nonsense.
Western Civilization’s best and brightest…
And why can’t women compete against men?
Caitlyn Jenner competed against men and beat the pants off of all of them.
It was really more of a non-decision
A solution would be to mandate all natural born women dope to equalize nature’s inequitable testosterone distribution. Then, like the East German female athletes of yore, we can be “strong like bull,”
I thought transgender was a sport. Don’t they compete with each other to see who can do the most outrageous mutilations to their body?
You mean, like body building, only backwards?
Yes, that’s much better than my explanation.
As someone who has attended many USA Track and Field Conventions where this question has been debated at length, I believe this is a sound decision. Each sport turns on athletic ability and physical strength to different degrees. Water polo is different than Wrestling. If a sport sorts through the data for the purposes of the Olympics and non-collegiate competition, why shouldn’t the same answer apply to college athletics?
Hint: Any sport that already has separate men’s and women’s classes has already determined those reasons and made that decision. On the other hand, something like NASCAR, or boomerang-throwing… well, there’s your huckleberry.
The NCAA is a feckless institution. They dithered and dodged NIL now this. At some point one begins to question the rationale for an organization who rakes in cash off the backs of athletes and member institutions, purports to be the governing body for College Athletics, yet consistently ducks responsibility for tough or controversial decisions. Their days are numbered, IMO.
They will only do something when Vegas says “uh, hold on there a second.” Betting odds on the tranny being 1 : 1.01.
Start a transgender category you twits!