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Two years after University of Pennsylvania transgender athlete Leah Thomas won the national title in women’s swimming, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced that a man who identifies as transgender will be on the podium. They continue to brazenly throw female athletes to the curb to get their way. Not to mention the scholarships and opportunities. Riley Gaines, who Thomas had to step aside to take to the winner’s podium, and Thomas had to change in a closet to gain privacy and dignity from a biological male in the locker room. Champion swimmers like Kylie Arons have never had an NCAA hearing. They spoke to executives about what they went through and what other female athletes face in the future.
As the NCAA faces backlash for suppressing women’s achievements, NCAA President Charlie Baker made a blockbuster confession buried on page 18 of a recent letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: “The NCAA has never studied the harms of policies that allow male identification” to join and compete on women’s teams as a woman. ” Absolutely not.
In a series following up on Baker’s appearance at a hearing titled “Name, Image, Likeness and the Future of College Sports,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said: asked a question.
Sen. Mike Lee: Has the NCAA evaluated the physical, emotional, and psychological harm that transgender inclusion policies have on female athletes? If so, what are the consequences? If not. , why not?
press. Baker: The NCAA has not conducted any research related to its current transgender policy.
That’s a bomb. The NCAA’s “Transgender Student-Athlete Participation Policy,” which puts a male Leah Thomas in the women’s locker room and continues to encourage men to win national titles in women’s sports, is doing (now obvious) harm to female athletes. has never been studied.
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Overview of NCAA pool flags. (Scott Taetsch/NCAA Photo, Getty Images)
In many federal courts, this fact alone is grounds for a nationwide injunction.
And as Caitlin Clark continues to break impressive records in women’s basketball, especially as the NCAA faces accusations of a history of misogyny, this is a serious confession in black and white. The University of Iowa standout just broke the NCAA Division I career scoring record, but with the NCAA erasing female athletes from the college annals, previous record holders, especially Lynette Woodard of the University of Kansas (1978-81) )’s achievements were never recorded. women’s sports.
“In summary, the NCAA does not consider women’s basketball records to be records. Prior to 1982, the NCAA did not want women in its organization,” wrote Sally Jenkins, writing for the Washington Post. Because of this,” he said.
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Currently, the NCAA doesn’t care if the athletes in women’s sports are women. The government gives full permission for men who identify as transgender to jeopardize their safety, steal trophies, suppress their athletic achievements, even take away their scholarships and break records in women’s sports. are doing.
Baker’s shocking confession should provide grounds for the NCAA to immediately suspend and discontinue its transgender inclusion policy. How does the NCAA continue to further strengthen its policy directing the inclusion of trans-identifying men in women’s college sports, when 14 years of policy has never been evaluated for harm to female student-athletes or its obligations under Title IX? I wonder if it can be done?
The NCAA’s chief medical officer, who proudly prioritizes mental health, and the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS), which is in charge of the NCAA’s transgender policy, without studying the harms at all. How can we defend this trans-inclusion framework? Can not do that. We know from experience that this policy directly and disproportionately impacts female athletes physically, emotionally and psychologically.
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To make matters worse, while Baker was testifying before Congress last fall, CSMAS had appointed a new “independent” commissioner, Dr. Jack Turban, to the commission. Turban is well-known in trans policy circles as a medical activist and is certain to impose his biased “expert” opinions on transgender participation in women’s sports on the NCAA. Turban’s 2021 article, “Trans Girls Belong on Women’s Sports Teams,” published in Scientific American magazine, argues that there is “no scientific basis for excluding transgender people.” What research is it based on?
Baker’s admission is a direct indictment of CSMAS and its dubious “scientific” procedures, but since CSMAS was adopted in 2010, the commission has never been interested in assessing the policy’s harm to women. Now that I know I didn’t have it.
For organizations like Concerned Women for America, which represent women across generations, the fact that Charlie Baker has not been endorsed by any party is tragic.
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