The NCAA will ban males from female sports to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order.
“The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only,” the NCAA wrote in a press release. “The policy permits student-athletes assigned male at birth to practice with women’s teams and receive benefits such as medical care while practicing.”
The NCAA has allowed males in female sports since 2010. I didn’t realize it’s been that long!
It only shot to headlines when a man going by “Lia” Thomas joined the female swim team at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas crushed record after record.
Riley Gaines became a prominent voice when she tied with Thomas for fifth place in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship.
Gaines claimed the NCAA gave Thomas the trophy as a photo op. The organization said she could take the sixth-place trophy and pose with it.
“The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes,” stated NCAA President Charlie Baker. “We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions.”
The NCAA faced numerous lawsuits and heat from many females and red states.
In 2022, the NCAA adopted a policy that allowed individual sports to set eligibility.
That wasn’t enough, though. We demanded an end to males in female sports.
Thank goodness Trump made that happen.
“To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard,” Baker added.
Yes, it does.
No males in female sports. No males in female spaces.
“The updated policy combined with these resources follows through on the NCAA’s constitutional commitment to deliver intercollegiate athletics competition and to protect, support and enhance the mental and physical health of student-athletes,” said Baker. “This national standard brings much needed clarity as we modernize college sports for today’s student-athletes.”
I would laugh at those two sentences from Baker if this weren’t a serious situation.
The NCAA never cared about female athletes’ safety and health. The organization cared more about a male’s feelings.
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