02-08-2025, 02:54 PM
(02-08-2025, 08:53 AM)needle Wrote: ...
About one month after that letter, the NCAA came out with a statement fully supportive of the inclusion of trans athletes:
Quote: The NCAA Board of Governors stated that it “firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports. This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition… inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport.”
I think the NCAA is trying to "memory hole" this statement, as I can't find it on their official site, but here's a link to an advocacy group applauding the NCAA's stance at the time: https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-respond...on-sports/
That glaad.org post points to a News item at the NCAA which (normally) disappeared later in 2021, but you can view it here
https://web.archive.org/web/202107010558...ticipation
That, in turn, points to this handbook, dated August 2011, which appears to have disappeared about 10 years after publication
https://web.archive.org/web/202103301509..._Final.pdf
I will remind people that the NCAA, like Congress, is an organic organization whose members change over time, as does what is going on around them.
