Kim Jones, a former American university tennis player and co-founder of the Independent Council on Women's Sports (Icon), amid criticism that there are still loopholes in the NCAA's new policies on transgender athletes. He sent a message to President Donald Trump.
The president has signed an executive order banning biological men from competing in women's sports. The NCAA continued the following day, overturning its trans-inclusion policy for women's sports.
Jones urged Trump to rewrite the NCAA.
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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order banning transgender female athletes from participating in female or girl sporting events on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Take the NCAA back to the table, tell them to put their policies in the trash can, set it on fire and start over again,” she said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.
Jones was one of the critics who argued that the policy was not well underdeveloped and did not establish clear barriers sufficient to protect female athletes in the university ranks. The most common criticism is said to allow this policy to allow trans-athletes to bypass restrictions by changing the gender of their birth certificates.
In the US, 44 states change birth certificates to change a person's birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. Meanwhile, there are 14 states that allow you to change the gender of your birth certificate without medical documents, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
The NCAA has issued a statement to Fox News Digital. This means that governing bodies will not allow transathletes to compete in the female category based on changed birth certificates.
“This policy makes it clear that there is no exemption and athletes assigned a male at birth may not compete on female teams with revised birth certificates or other forms of ID,” the spokeswoman said. Mann said.
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NCAA volleyball is depicted at the Division I Men's Volleyball Championship held at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California on May 4, 2019. (NCAA photo via John W. McDonough/Getty Images)
Jones said the NCAA must “absolutely need” two things.
“Initially, we must determine that membership in the women's team is only aimed at female student athletes,” she said. “Secondly, there must be a screening mechanism to prevent male athletes from crossing that barrier.”
She made it clear that Trump's “men in women's sports” order has not solidified.
“It's not a remote transaction,” she added. “The policies released by the NCAA do not have accountability and oversight from the NCAA. There is no clear language that restricts female team membership to female athletes only, and there is no mechanism for screening sex.”
Regarding trans athletes who practice on female teams, the NCAA considers male practice athletes to be the “staple” of female sports.
“Male practice players have been a staple of college sports for decades, especially in women's basketball, and the association will continue to explain this in policy,” the spokesman said.
However, the benefits of being extended to trans athletes practicing on female teams do not include scholarships.
The NCAA logo is located on February 28, 2023 at the entrance sign outside the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. (Mitchel Layton/Getty Images)
These details are not currently outlined on the official NCAA policy page. This is because they have not made any specific mentions about birth certificate or ID revisions or women's scholarships going to trans athletes.
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It has not yet been decided whether the NCAA will make an official update to address these criticisms.
Jackson Thompson of Fox News contributed to this report.
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