NCAA president Charlie Baker doesn’t think the organization needs to tweak its policy on males in female sports after the Supreme Court ruled that states can have laws keeping female sports female-only.
In other words, the ruling doesn’t nullify laws in blue states that allow this outrageous behavior.
“I had said to folks, Democrats and Republicans in Washington, after I got this job, that we needed some sort of clarity around what the national standard for this would be, and we adopted and comply with the standard that was put forth by the Trump administration,” Baker told Ed O’Keefe on Face the Nation. “I think what happens at the state level is a different question. Although, I do think our national standard is going to be what we expect our schools to use with respect to eligibility issues for college sports.”
First of all, the NCAA does not have a policy that outright bans males from participating in women’s sports. It does not align with President Donald Trump’s executive order.
The policy (emphasis mine): “The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only. The policy permits student-athletes assigned male at birth to practice with women’s teams and receive benefits such as medical care while practicing.”
Assigned at birth. Why is that important?
The District of Columbia and around 30 states allow you to change your sex on your birth certificate.
Second, the press release announcing the policy literally says, “NCAA schools are subject to local, state and federal legislation and such policy supersedes the rules of the NCAA.”
In other words, everything about the policy contradicts what Baker said to O’Keefe.
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