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FILE -The San Jose State gamers take the courtroom for heat ups earlier than an NCAA girls’s faculty volleyball match in opposition to Air Drive, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photograph/Eakin Howard, File)
The NCAA modified its participation coverage for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competitors in girls’s sports activities to athletes assigned feminine at delivery solely.
The transfer got here someday after President Donald Trump signed an govt order meant to ban transgender athletes from collaborating in ladies’ and girls’s sports activities. The order provides federal companies latitude to withhold federal funding from entities that don’t abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “intercourse” because the gender somebody was assigned at delivery.
The NCAA coverage change is efficient instantly and applies to all athletes no matter earlier eligibility evaluations beneath the NCAA’s prior transgender participation coverage. The group has greater than 1,200 faculties with greater than 500,000 athletes, simply the most important governing physique for school athletics within the U.S.
“We strongly imagine that clear, constant, and uniform eligibility requirements would finest serve at present’s student-athletes as a substitute of a patchwork of conflicting state legal guidelines and courtroom selections,” NCAA President Charlie Baker stated. “To that finish, President Trump’s order offers a transparent, nationwide commonplace.”
The NCAA’s revised coverage permits athletes assigned male at delivery to apply with girls’s groups and obtain advantages comparable to medical care whereas training.
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