The NCAA has been faced with calls to follow in the footsteps of world athletics and to implement gender tests for athletes who wish to participate in female sports.
The president of world athletics, Sebastian Coe, said that cheating tests will be used for athletes who wish to participate in the female category. He described the “very simple” process and keep the women’s sports show an “important” problem for him.
He added that the tests are not invasive and were ready for any criticism that could appear to him.
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The NCAA is confronted with calls to implement gender tests for athletes who wish to participate in female sports. (Mitchell Layton / Getty images)
Defenders of equity in female sports called NCAA to go further and modify their rules in accordance with global athletics.
COE has promised to protect female sports.
“None of these elements are invasive. They are necessary, and they will be made to absolutely international medical standards,” he said during media availability. “I would not have triggered this path in 2016, 2017 to protect the female category in sport if I had been something other than prepared to take up the challenge.
“We went to the court of arbitration for sport on our [difference of sexual development] DSD regulations. They were confirmed, and once again, they were confirmed after the call. We will obstinately protect the female category, and we will do everything you need to do so. And we are not only talking about it. “”
President Donald Trump signed the executive decree “No Men in Women’s Sports” in February to prevent organic men from playing against the sports of girls and women.
The NCAA followed by modifying its rules of participation in the genre. The organization said that a “student-athlete assigned to birth may not compete in a female team”. The previous policy, which had been in place in 2010, allowed biological men to participate in the category of women after having undergone at least one year of treatment for the abolition of testosterone.
President Donald Trump signs a decree that prohibits transgender female athletes from participating in female or girls sporting events, in the east house in the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
However, the defenders of female sport stressed that the NCAA rules are not far enough.
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Major criticism has been that politics fails to go far enough or to establish clear obstacles to protect female athletes in the ranks of the college and that the policy allowed Trans athletes to bypass the restriction by modifying sex on their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states make it possible to modify birth certificates to change the birth of a person. 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.
Riley Gaines, the host of the Podcast “Gaines for Girls” by Outkick and a former American swimmer in Kentucky, PK Press Club Digital told an interview last month that the new NCAA policy was “as clear as the mud”.
An NCAA spokesperson told PK Press Club Digital that the Director Body will not allow Trans athletes to participate in the female category 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.
Regarding the trans athletes who practiced in a female team, the NCAA considers players of male practice an “essential” of female sports.
Riley Gaines speaks to the Penn State University. (Riley Gaines)
“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.
