President Trump's Department of Education requires top athletic organizations for colleges and high schools to win awards, records and titles that transgender women win.
The Department of Education submitted missions to the National College Athletics Association (NCAA) and the National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) on Tuesday, complying with Trump's executive order earlier this month banning men from women's sports.
“Whether the number of records of female events due to men is 1 million or 1 million, all official records of female performances must accurately reflect the performance of female athletes, not male athletes. There is a letter.
In recent years, controversy has erupted over transgender women (male-born individuals) who have betrayed biological women in athletic competitions.
For example, Swimmeria Thomas, 25, of the University of Pennsylvania, won the NCAA Division I National Championship in 2022 in a women's 500-yard freestyle.
At the time, Thomas was the first openly trans athlete to win the NCAA Division I National Championship. Thomas was also linked to 24-year-old Riley Gaines and fifth-placed NCAA Freestyle.
Gaines complained that he had to share the locker room with Thomas.
Other examples include Cece Telfer, who won the NCAA Division II 400m hurdle in 2019, and high school athlete Soren Stark-Chessa, who won the Class C South Girls High School title and ran almost a minute and a half. It will be available. Second place contestant.
“We cannot undo the damage caused by years of policies and practices that have denied the material reality of sex,” Jackson added to the head of the NCAA and NFHS in her letter.
“The department urges the NCAA and NFHS to take immediate action and require member institutions to do the same. Revise all women's competition records to reflect the outcomes of female student athletes. Respect, demand that the title be returned to female athletes. Awards, and awards they win and deserve.
An NFHS spokesman later wrote, ” [national high school records book] Set by transgender female athletes. ”
The post also contacted the NCAA, which oversees sports regulations for more than 1,100 institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, for comment.
Trump's Sweep Executive The order to “seal men from women's sports” calls on the Ministry of Education to pursue “all appropriate actions to positively protect all women's athletic opportunities and all women's locker rooms.” Ta.
It also threatened Title IX investigations against schools that were not compliant with the order.
Passed in 1972, Title IX prohibits sex discrimination at schools and other agencies that earn federal money.
“By sending these letters, the department not only fights for equal opportunities for current and future female athletes, but also provides the recognition they have justified in the interests of past female athletes who have received praise. I demonstrated that I received it,” he said in the post.
Last week Trump's executive order, NCAA It announced that it is updating its policy Limits “female sports competition to student-athletes assigned women at birth.”
However, Hartman explained that the DOE hopes the NCAA will correct and correct the situation for biological female athletes who have lost awards to trans athletes.
“The department has acknowledged that the NCAA has amended its policy with intent to be consistent with President Trump's executive order, but official revisions to the records are argued to be the case for justice for female athletes permitted under the Biden administration. It's another important action to correct miscarriage,” Hartman said.
