02-06-2025, 03:28 PM
(02-06-2025, 02:25 PM)SkiBum80 Wrote: From a breaking article:
The NCAA has officially changed its gender eligibility policies to ban all biological males from women's sports one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to address the issue.
The governing body of college sports announced on Thursday afternoon its new participation policy for transgender student-athletes.
"A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team," the new policy reads.
Regarding the Olympics, since Nov 2021 the IOC has deferred to each sports governing body to decide rules of eligibility.
Here's from a July 2024 article about some of the sports response and leading up to Paris games:
Since the IOC allowed sporting bodies to set their own policies on trans participation, multiple official bodies have updated their policies, largely in relation to trans women.
At least 10 Olympic sports have restricted the participation of trans athletes in female categories.
World Rowing has issued a near-blanket ban on the participation of trans women in female categories, while the World Boxing Council does not allow any trans athletes to participate.
The world bodies for athletics, cycling, swimming, rugby and cricket have banned trans women from competing in female categories if they underwent puberty before starting their transition.
The governing bodies for the triathlon, tennis and archery require testosterone levels to be suppressed within a specified limit.
Other sporting bodies, such as the Badminton World Federation, have said they will consider trans athletes on a case-by-case basis, while FIFA, global soccer's governing body, announced in 2022 that it would review its policy.
Since the executive order, I've seen only one community college, Santa Monica College, put out a fiesty, defiant statement: https://www.smc.edu/news/announcements/2...hletes.php
I still think there will be a legal fight over this, but, given that the NCAA is the de facto voice of college presidents, I don't think any major college/university is eager to pick that fight.
