Dr. Jack Turban, director of the University of California’s gender psychiatry program in San Francisco, specializing in the mental health of young Transgenres, resigned on Friday from an NCAA committee after the organization conforms to the Executive decree of President Donald Trump.
Trump has signed an executive decree to protect female sports. Order has prohibited organic men from participating in female and girls sports. It allowed the federal government to penalize the entities funded by the federal government which “deprive women and girls of sporting opportunities”.
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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 on the White House, Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
In response, NCAA has changed its trans-inclusion policy to completely prohibit transgender athletes from female sports. Turban wrote a letter to the President of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, announcing his resignation from the NCAA Committee on competitive guarantees and medical sports aspects (CSMAS).
“Unfortunately, your recent decision to issue a general prohibition on the participation of Trans women in female sports does not correspond to medical or scientific consensus,” said the letter from Turban. “I cannot participate in all good conscience in this type of politicization of science and medicine to the detriment of some of our most vulnerable athlete students.
“I am extremely grateful for my time with CSMAS and I was impressed by the academic and medical rigor that the Committee brings to ensure the competitive equity and the safety of athlete students. I am particularly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the other members of the committee doctor.
Trump praises the executive decree keeping the biological men of female sports
President Donald Trump speaks in the east room of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
“However, it is clear that your decision was based on policy and not on science, because the members of the CSMAS were not consulted before the decision.”
The NCAA announced the change one day after Trump signed the decree.
“NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in the 50 states which collectively register more than 530,000 students-athletes,” said Baker in a statement. “We firmly believe that clear, coherent and uniform eligibility standards would best serve students-athletes today instead of a patchwork of conflicting laws and decisions. To this end, President Trump’s order provides a clear national standard.
“The policy updated combined with these resources follows the constitutional commitment of the NCAA to offer an intercollegial athletics competition and to protect, support and improve the mental and physical health of student-athletes,” said Baker. “This national standard brings a much necessary clarity while we modernize university sports for today’s students.”
Trump’s executive decree prohibited organic men from competing in female and girls sports. (Photos Scott Taetsch / NCAA via Getty Images)
Turban added in an Instagram post: “I am sad to see #NCAA politicize science and medicine to the detriment of some of our most vulnerable athlete students.”
