NCAA VP suggests changes are coming to trans athlete policy after Trump's executive order is signed

With President Donald Trump acceptable to motion an executive order banning trans athletes from girls' and women's sports connected Wednesday, the NCAA is already bracing for a imaginable alteration to its existent rules that let trans athletes to vie with women. 

Vice president of the NCAA's Eligibility Center, Felicia Martin, spoke astatine a legislature briefing successful Washington connected Wednesday to observe National Girls and Women successful Sports Day and suggested that the NCAA Board of Governors is already discussing imaginable argumentation changes aft Trump's enforcement bid goes into effect. 

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"We cognize that this is an contented and a nationalist speech happening astir participation," she said. "The Board of Governors is close present having conversations astir what imaginable adjacent steps nighttime be, but this is perfectly 1 of those issues that is ongoing, but without a nationalist modular that tin beryllium applied crossed the board, each of america are making decisions based connected what we deliberation is the champion for pupil athletes and opportunities." 

Martin added that she expects much clarity connected a nationalist modular aboriginal successful the time from Trump. She besides said that the Board of Governors would marque its decisions connected immoderate argumentation changes based connected the circumstantial details of the enforcement order. 

In summation to Trump's enforcement order, the NCAA whitethorn get adjacent much clarity connected an incoming national modular if the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act passes done Congress. The bill, which would prohibition national backing for immoderate instauration that allows trans athletes successful girls' and women's sports, has already made it done the House of Representatives. 

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The NCAA has had a argumentation successful spot to let trans athletes to vie against women dating backmost to 2010. The 2010 NCAA Policy connected Transgender Student-Athlete Participation states that biologically antheral athletes are allowed to vie successful the women's class aft undergoing astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth of testosterone suppression treatment. 

This argumentation has resulted successful aggregate lawsuits against the NCAA and its subordinate schools. Former NCAA swimmer and existent blimpish activistic Riley Gaines is presently starring a suit implicit her acquisition of having to vie with and stock a locker country with trans swimmer Lia Thomas astatine the 2022 nationalist championships. She is joined by respective different women athletes who person besides been affected by trans inclusion. 

Another suit was filed Tuesday evening, erstwhile 3 of Thomas' erstwhile UPenn teammates came guardant with their ain experiences of having to stock a squad and locker country with Thomas and were allegedly gaslit by their assemblage administrators and fed pro-trans ideology. 

NCAA President Charlie Baker addressed concerns implicit the contented of pistillate athletes having to stock teams and locker rooms with trans athletes during a Senate Judiciary Committee proceeding successful December. There, Baker insisted that pistillate athletes person the enactment to find different accommodations if they're uncomfortable sharing with transgenders. 

"Everybody other should person an accidental to usage different facilities if they privation to bash so," Baker said.

Baker besides says that the NCAA's policies that let trans athletes to vie against women are based connected national standards. 

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Baker has besides attempted to downplay the standard of the issue. Baker addressed the contented again during an interrogation connected ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" days aft the hearing. When McAfee asked Baker however the parents of daughters should consciousness astir trans athletes successful women's sports and the NCAA's grounds connected it, Baker said, "There are 510,000 assemblage athletes playing successful the NCAA, determination are little than 10 transgender athletes, truthful it's a tiny assemblage to statesman with."

However, contempt that statistic, the contented has go a nationalist statement implicit the past year, with respective different instances of it happening astatine the younker and precocious schoolhouse level, prompting nationalist outrage. 

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A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. 

Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.

The contented is adjacent believed to person affected the result of the 2024 election. 

Shortly aft November's election, a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them. 

And 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

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