Kim Jones, former American collegial tennis player and co -founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (Icons), had a message for President Donald Trump in the midst of criticisms according to which the new NCAA policy on transgender athletes still has gaps.
The president signed a decree prohibiting biological men from participating in female sports. The NCAA followed the next day, reversing its Policy on Trans inclusion in female sports.
Jones called Trump to bring NCAA to rewrite its policy again.
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President Donald Trump signs a decree that prohibits transgender female athletes from participating in female or girls sporting events, in the east house of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
“Recall the NCAA to the table and tell them to put the policy in the trash, light it on fire and start again,” she said on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.
Jones was one of the criticisms that insisted that this policy does not go far enough or does not establish enough barriers to protect female athletes in the ranks of the college. The most common criticism was that politics allegedly allowed Trans athletes to bypass the restriction by modifying sex on their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states authorize birth certificates to modify a person’s birthday. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. Meanwhile, 14 states make it possible to modify sexual relations on a birth certificate without any required medical documentation, notably California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
The NCAA has published a declaration to PK Press Club Digital according to which the director organ will not allow the Trans athletes to compete in the category of women according to the modified birth certificates.
“Policy is clear that there is no available derogation, and athletes assigned to birth may not compete in a female team with modified birth certificates or other forms of identity,” said The spokesperson.
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The NCAA volleyball are represented at the male championship of division I taking place at the Walter Pyramid on May 4, 2019 in Long Beach, California. (Photos John W. McDonough / NCAA via Getty Images)
Jones said NCAA had to make two things “absolutely compulsory”.
“The first, they must decide that membership of a female team is for athlete students exclusively,” she said. “Second, there must be a screening mechanism to ensure that no male athlete can cross this barrier.”
She clearly indicated that Trump’s “No Men in Women’s Sports” was far from being solidified.
“This is not a barely concluded distant business,” she added. “The policy that the NCAA has published has no responsibility and surveillance of NCAA. It has no clear language limiting membership to the female team only to female athletes and it has no screening mechanism Sex. “
Regarding the trans athletes who practiced in a female team, the NCAA considers players of male practice an “essential” of female sports.
“Players of male practice have been a basic food in university sports for decades, especially in women’s basketball and the association will continue to take this into politics,” said the spokesperson.
However, the advantages which are extended to the trans athletes which practiced in a female team do not include scholarships, a source told PK Press Club Digital.
The NCAA logo on the entrance panel outside the NCAA headquarters on February 28, 2023 in Indianapolis. (Mitchell Layton / Getty images)
These details are not currently described on the official NCAA policy page, as it does not make any specific reference to the birth certificate or identity changes, or to the women’s scholarships that go to Trans athletes.
The question of whether the NCAA makes an official update to respond to these criticisms has not yet been determined.
