The NCAA overturned a switch and seemed to change its gender participation policy to prevent organic men from competing in female sports following the executive decree of President Donald Trump.
Two weeks after Trump’s decree as part of Trump’s sports executive, long-standing criticism of the Top Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States have stressed that the new policy leaves much to be desired. Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Kim Jones and others who defended the protection of female sports underlined the possible gaps in NCAA policy.
Major criticism is that politics fails to go far enough or to establish clear obstacles 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.
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NCAA seat on February 28, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Mitchell Layton / Getty images)
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.
Gains, the host of the Podcast “Gaines for Girls” of Outkick and former American swimmer in Kentucky, told PK Press Club Digital on Wednesday in an interview that the new NCAA policy was “explicitly in conflict” with the executive order of Trump.
“N ° 1, above all, this policy removes all the responsibility of the NCAA, which, of course, is something that has been in the lead for them for a long time,” said Gaines. “It provides gaps in states and schools because it does not define sex, what we have seen now is a problem, unfortunately. I mean, it is wild that we must define sex -based terms like the Men and women, but we have seen that when we do not see the non-elected bureaucrats go through the back door and reinterpret these words to signify what they want them to mean.
The NCAA also responds that criticisms call potential shortcomings in its new trans-athlete policy
Riley Gaines speaks during the rally “Our bodies, Our Sports: We Won’t Back Down” of the independent female forum on January 11, 2024 in Phoenix. (Megan Mendoza / The Republic / USA Today Network)
“So, he does not define sex, he does not define men or women, but he defines gender identity. And he defines gender identity as a man and woman. So, of course, You can see where it is a problem. .
“This policy explicitly allows men and women of the female team. No matter how you read it, men are always allowed to receive female advantages, which include access to their changing rooms. There is no Screening.
The new NCAA policy for student-athletes “assigned by the breast at birth” and their participation in the female teams have said that athletes may not compete in the women’s team, but they “can train in the ‘Team consistent with their gender identity and receive all the other advantages applicable to students-athletes who are otherwise eligible for practice.
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.
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Riley Gaines speaks during a round table calling to protect female sports in Grand Blanc, Michigan, August 5, 2024. (Ryan Garza / USA Today Network)
“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.
“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.
Gaines told PK Press Club Digital that politics “speaks of itself”.
“Politics are simply not clear. Again, it removes the responsibility of NCAA,” she said. “So, of course, they will say:” Listen, the burden is not about us. We have done what we have to do. “In the end, they opened women almost even further than their previous policy, since they have removed screening and surveillance. They even deleted this.
“These schools can and want – to mark my words, to interpret as what they want it means. I do not know why so many people are so naive to believe that the NCAA has essentially grew up a vertebral column overnight and A decided to do everything in their power to protect athletes – female or male – because as a person who was at the reception of the ill -treatment of the NCAA, I can tell you that it is not the case.
Kim Jones, a former star of university tennis and co -founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, said that on “Fox & Friends”, she would implore Trump to bring the NCAA to the table, to tear the new policy and to start again.
President Donald Trump signs an executive decree prohibiting transgender female athletes from participating in female or girls sporting events at the White House, February 5, 2025 (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
Gaines said that she would tell the president that it was time to hold the “feet of fire” of the NCAA.
“The NCAA certainly receives federal funds. So, if they are not ready to comply with that of President Trump, once again, thoroughly and beautifully written, then I think that NCAA should lose federal funding.”
