The NCAA has changed its policy for transgender athletes after US President Donald Trump published a decree. He said that “clear, coherent and uniform eligibility standards would be used today’s student-athletes.”
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The American Sports Director of Sports Sports American changed its policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, allowing only women assigned to birth to compete in female sports. The decision to move the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) one day after President Donald Trump published an executive decree aimed at prohibiting transgender athletes of female girls and sports.
The order allows federal agencies to refuse the financing of groups which do not consider the sexes attributed to birth in determining sex.
The NCAA includes 1,100 colleges in the 50 states with more than 530,000 athlete students.
“We firmly believe that clear, coherent and uniform eligibility standards would be used as well as students at today instead of a patchwork of conflictual laws and court decisions,” said the president of NCAA , Charlie Baker, in a press release.
“To this end, the order of President Trump provides a clear national standard.”
Trump says he saved female sports
Trump took a victory tour on social networks, saying that he had saved female sports.
“Exciting news!” Because of my decree, which I proudly signed yesterday, the NCAA has officially changed their policy to authorize men in female sports – it is now prohibited! Trump posted.
Baker said that last year he only knew 10 transgender athletes from NCAA, but three former teammates from the University of Pennsylvania, the Transgender Swimmer, Lia Thomas, continued the NCAA and the school for Thomas in competition at the Ivy League and NCAA championships.
San Jose State University also had teams refused to compete with its women’s women’s team for unconfirmed affirmations that there was a transgender player on the list.
The anterior rule of NCAA on transgender athletes had been to be lacking in the position of national rules of national competition in the United States or the International Sports Federation.
“The Council of Governors of the NCAA is examining the decree and will take the necessary measures to align the NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to new administration directives,” said Baker.
“The association will continue to promote welcoming environments on campuses for all athlete students. We are ready to help schools while seeking ways to support athlete students affected by changes in politics. »»
“ Clarity well necessary ”
By virtue of politics changes, a student was assigned to birth who started hormone therapy as testosterone cannot compete in a female team but can continue to practice with a female team and receive services such as medical care during practice.
“This policy comes into force immediately and applies to all student-athletes, regardless of previous eligibility examinations as part of the NCAA previous transgender participation policy,” said NCAA.
NCAA governors have ordered staff to help member schools “promote respectful and inclusive collegial sporting crops”, in particular by putting mental health services and resources available to athlete students.
NCAA has also said that individual schools have autonomy to determine the participation of athletics on their campuses and that politics does not apply to mixed male and female team sports such as Rifle.
