The NCAA turned a switch and seemed to change its Gender Gender Policy to prohibit biological men with women’s sports in the aftermath of the president Donald Trump’s Executive order.
Two weeks after Trump’s No men in women’s sports Executive order, long -standing critics of the Top Collegiate Athletic Association in the US have pointed out that the new policy leaves much to be desired. Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Kim Jones and others who have defended the protection of women’s sports have pointed to the possible meshes in the NCAA policy.
The most important criticism is that the policy does not go 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.
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NCAA head office on 28 February 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
In the US, 44 states allow the birth certificates to be changed to change the birth weather 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.
Gaines, the host of Outkick’s “Gaines for girls” Podcast and former all-American Swimmer in Kentucky, Fox News Digital told in an interview on Wednesday that the new NCAA policy is “explicit in conflict” with Trump’s executive order.
“No. 1, in the first place, this policy removes all the responsibility from the NCAA, which of course is something that has been in mind for a long time,” said Gaines. “It offers Mazen for both states and schools because it does not define sex, what we have seen now, is unfortunately a problem that happens if we don’t. We don’t see -chosen bureaucrats go through the back door and re -interpret these words about to mean what they want them to mean.
NCAA reacts potential meshes in his new trans-athlete policy when critics responds
Riley Gines speaks on “Our Bodies, Our Sports: We Will not return” from the Independent Women’s Forum on January 11, 2024 in Phoenix. (Megan Mendoza/The Republic/USA Today Network)
“So it does not define sex, it does not define male or female, but it does define gender identity. And it defines gender identity as well as both men and women. So of course you can see where that is a problem. The qualifications for how they consider and assign sex , are based on your birth certificate, which of course is a piece of paper that we have now seen that is completely forged and fraudulent. “
“This policy allows men and women explicitly in the women’s team. No matter how you read it, men can still receive the benefits of women, including access to their changing rooms. There is no screening. There is no supervision. There are just a few reasons why This NCAA policy is certainly problematic.
The new policy of the NCAA for student athletes “assigned male at birth” and their participation in women’s teams stated that athletes may not compete with the women’s team, but they can “practice in the team that is consistent with their gender identity and all other benefits Receive that applies student athletes who are otherwise eligible for practice.
A NCAA spokesperson Fox News Digital told that the administrative body does not allow transatations to compete in the women category on the basis of changed birth certificates.
Riley Gaines speaks during a Rondetary event that is called on on August 5, 2024 to protect women’s sports in Grand Blanc, Michigan. (Ryan Garza/USA Today Network)
“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.
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.
Gaines told Fox News Digital that the policy ‘speaks for itself’.
“The policy is simply not clear. Again, it removes the responsibility from the NCAA,” she said. “So of course they will say,” Look, the responsibility is not on us. We did what we have to do. ” It comes down to women almost even further than their previous policy, given that they have removed screening and supervision.
“These schools can and will mark my words, interpret it to mean what they want it to mean. I don’t know why so many people are so naive to believe that the NCAA in essence a spine grew and decided to do everything Their strength to protect athletes – by the way feminine or male – because if someone who was at the receiving end of the mistreatment of the NCAA, I can tell you that that is not the case. Athletes and that has not changed. “
Kim Jones, a former college tennis star and co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, said on “Fox & Friends” She would beg Trump to bring the NCAA back to the table, to tear up the new policy and start again.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that retains transgender female athletes to participate in sporting events for women or girls, in the White House, February 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Gaine said she would tell the president that it was now time to keep the “feet of the NCAA on the fire”.
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“The NCAA certainly receives federal funds. So if they are not willing to comply with President Trump’s, again, thoroughly and beautifully written executive order, I believe that the NCAA should lose federal financing.”
Jackson Thompson from Fox News has contributed to this report.
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