Riley Gaines and the former Olympian Sharron Davies called NCAA for continuing to ignore the executive order of Donald Trump which prohibits transgender athletes from participating in female sports.
Gaines referred to Ithaca Rawer Juniper Gattone on X, displaying a photo of the former man who participates in the women’s female team.
She posted: “Wait for a minute … I thought that the NCAA had a new policy that was in accordance with Trump’s Once?
‘No. Men still participate in female NCAA sports. Meet Gattone Juniper (Tyler). The NCAA deliberately deceived the public and Donald Trump.
This prompted Davies, who won an Olympic silver medal in swimming in Moscow 1980, to react and she also torn Gattone for taking a place for a woman.
She wrote: “These males deliberately cheat. They know that they have an unfair advantage, they fly a place for a woman in a category of female sport.
Riley Gaines criticized the Gattone of the Ithaca Transgender Rower for the race against women
Former Olympian Sharron Davies also criticized Gattone for “stoleing a woman’s place”
“When female sports get so fewer opportunities and money than male sport does it anyway.
“Women’s sport is not for 2nd rate men who cannot do it in sports for men. Compete by sex. Competition.
However, a spokesperson for Ithaca said: “It is the intention of Ithaca College to comply with all the rules of the NCAA. Under these rules, the student-athlete in question has the ability to be on the list and participate in open practices and competition.
“Last weekend, there was a misunderstanding by coache staff on what was an official NCAA event, because there is no third university rowing event at the NCAA championships.”
Gattone, which measures 5 feet 10 inches, is a second year student in Ithaca and studies environmental sciences.
Last season, she rowed in the Novice 8+ boat and helped the bombers capture their sixth consecutive crown of the female rowing of the Liberty League. Their boat was also appointed the female novice crew of the LL year after winning the final of two boats by 37 massive seconds.
Gattone’s boat was also the best new novice boat at the New York State championships, beating the army by two seconds.
Trump’s decree prompted NCAA to modify its participation policy on February 6, which limits competition in female sports to athletes assigned to birth.
The change was in force immediately and applies to all athletes, regardless of the previous eligibility exams. The NCAA has around 1,100 member schools with more than 500,000 athletes, easily the largest director organization for university athletics in the United States
“We firmly believe that clear, coherent and uniform eligibility standards would be used today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflictual laws and court decisions,” said NCAA president Charlie Baker. “To this end, the order of President Trump provides a clear national standard.”
Ithaca’s bombers participated in the NCAA division III as members of the Liberty League and the Sports Conference of Easter College.
Donald Trump has signed a decree prohibiting transgender athletes from female sports
Trump’s decree gives the federal agencies Latitude to retain federal funding from entities which do not respect title IX in accordance with the opinion of the Trump administration, which interprets the `sex ” as a genre that someone has been attributed to birth.
The United States Ministry of Education has since investigated potential title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting sexual discrimination in education.
Last month, Sheaths marked three years since she ran against the Trans swimmer Lia Thomas by celebrating AssetThe decision to reduce $ 175 million in federal funding at the University of Pennsylvania.
And an official account of the White House X announced on March 19 that the Trump administration had interrupted federal funding of $ 175 million in Upenn as a result.
The post said that the policies of the Ivy League school “force women to compete with men in sport”. He added Trump’s slogan: “The promises made, the promises.”