Kim Jones, a former all-American collegial tennis player and co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (icons), had a message for president Donald Trump In the midst of criticism that the new policy of the NCAA to transgender athletes is still leaning.
The president signed an executive order that forbade biological men to participate in women’s sports. The NCAA followed the next day and reversed its policy for trans -inclusion in women’s sports.
Jones called on Trump to bring the NCAA to Rewrite his policy.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order with transgender female athletes of participating in sporting events for women or girls, in the eastern room of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Call the NCAA back to the table and tell them that they can place the policy in the waste, set it on fire and start over,” she said on “Fox & Friends” On Wednesday.
Jones was one of the critics who demonstrated that this policy is not going far enough or brings clear barriers to protect women athletes in the university. The most common criticism is that the policy reportedly allows transatletes to circumvent the limitation by changing the gender on their birth certificate.
In the US, 44 states allow the birth certificates to be changed to change the birth weeks of a person. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. In the meantime, there are 14 states that allow sex on a birth certificate to be changed without any medical documentation, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
The NCAA has issued a statement to FOX News Digital that the administrative body does not allow transatations to compete in the women category on the basis of changed birth certificates.
“The policy is clear that there are no exemptions available, and athletes who are assigned at birth should not compete on a women’s team with changed birth certificates or other forms of ID,” the spokesperson said.
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NCAA volleyball are depicted at the Division I Volleyball Championship for men in the Walter Pyramid on 4 May 2019 in Long Beach, California. (John W. McDonough/NCAA photos via Getty Images)
Jones said that the NCAA had to make two things ‘absolutely compulsory’.
“The first they must decide that membership of a ladies team is exclusively for female student athletes,” she said. “Secondly, there must be a screening mechanism to ensure that no male athletes can cross that barrier.”
She made it clear that Trump’s order “no men in women’s sports” was far from.
“It’s not a foregone dealer from a distance,” she added. “The policy that the NCAA has released has no accountability and supervision of the NCAA. It has no clear language that only limits the team membership of women to female athletes and it has no mechanism for screening sex.”
Regarding transatletes who practice in a ladies team, the NCAA regards as male exercise players as a “staple” of women’s sports.
“Male exercise players have been a staple in the university sports for decades, especially in women’s basketball and the association will continue to explain that in the policy,” said the spokesperson.
However, the benefits that are extended to trans -athletes that practice in a women’s team do not include fairs, a well -known source told Fox News Digital.
The NCAA logo on the entrance sign outside the NCAA head office on 28 February 2023 in Indianapolis. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
These details are currently not described on the official NCAA policy page, because it does not make specific references to birth certificate or ID changes, or women’s fairs that go to trans -athletes.
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Whether the NCAA is making an official update to tackle this criticism still has to be determined.
Jackson Thompson from Fox News has contributed to this report.
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