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NCAA backs transgender athletes, says events will be in places 'free of discrimination'
NBC News ^ | April 12, 2020 | Jo Yuruba

Posted on 04/12/2021 3:41:58 PM PDT by Stravinsky

The NCAA, which regulates college athletics in the U.S., backed transgender athletes Monday, saying it won’t hold championship events in locations that aren’t “free of discrimination.”

As Republicans in more than two dozen states target transgender athletes, the NCAA Board of Governors said it "firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports."

It said its "more inclusive" policy for transgender athletes, which requires testosterone suppression treatment for transgender women to compete in women's sports, means “inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport.”

The board said it would monitor situations regarding trans athletes' participation without specifically mentioning states that have banned it or are considering bans. It did say the "environment" could affect the locations of championship games.

"When determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected," the statement said. "We will continue to closely monitor these situations to determine whether NCAA championships can be conducted in ways that are welcoming and respectful of all participants."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2asinine4words; athletics; education; ncaa; sports; tranny
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To: Stravinsky

Why discriminate?

Have men and women all compete in the same leagues.

No matter what they choose to wear


21 posted on 04/12/2021 3:50:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Stravinsky

What about discrimination against those of us with a Biblical morality?

ML/NJ


22 posted on 04/12/2021 3:50:54 PM PDT by ml/nj (DITCH MITCH !)
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To: Republican Wildcat
They are protecting girls and women’s sports from virtual elimination

From the sound of things, the kids and coaches don't want help from Republicans. In fact they hate you.

23 posted on 04/12/2021 3:51:49 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: proxy_user

Every 100 yard dash would turn into a drag race


24 posted on 04/12/2021 3:51:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Stravinsky
Social conservatives have a long track of defeat that makes the French and Italian armies of World War II look like Caesar's legions. From battles over contraception and pornography in the 1950s to homosexual “marriages” in the 2010s, there has been an unending string of losses. Only massive resistance and no surrender will work. If that means the end of collegiate sports beyond intramurals, so be it.
25 posted on 04/12/2021 3:52:06 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: ConservativeMind

That is, “country-wide!”


26 posted on 04/12/2021 3:52:16 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dfwgator

He was awesome.


27 posted on 04/12/2021 3:53:21 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: cranked

Worked in Russia..Bruno competed as Bruna.


28 posted on 04/12/2021 3:53:37 PM PDT by richardtavor ( )
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To: Stravinsky

Lol...the racist, mysogonist leftists found a way to use women then destroy them....oh this is too funny.


29 posted on 04/12/2021 3:55:23 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: richardtavor

The East Germans pumped their women athletes so full of hormones, they literally turned into men.


30 posted on 04/12/2021 3:56:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Stravinsky

Why is it so hard to just have men compete against men, women against woman, transwhatevers complete against transwhatevers.


31 posted on 04/12/2021 3:57:22 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Stravinsky

We live in a world of fiction where most people or people in authority pretend bizarre things are normal.


32 posted on 04/12/2021 3:57:48 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Stravinsky

Real girls matter...RGM!


33 posted on 04/12/2021 3:58:02 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: Stravinsky

All these colleges should just start their own version of the NCAA.


34 posted on 04/12/2021 4:00:19 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Stravinsky

Eff the NCAA.


35 posted on 04/12/2021 4:01:15 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cranked

Agreed


36 posted on 04/12/2021 4:03:11 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Stravinsky

The NCAA has lost its mind.


37 posted on 04/12/2021 4:03:13 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: rightwingcrazy
I would like them to explain why, exactly, there is a category of sports called “women’s sports”.

Exactly! Everything about college sports is discriminatory by some definition of the word. Some shmoe off the street can't play women's soccer at USC just because he made it to practice, they had to 1) actually be a women (at least until recently). 2) be a student at USC with a certain minimum grade point average and pass a drug test. 3) actually be good enough at soccer to be selected for the team.

If I couldn't play college sports because I was a stupid kid, I'd start identifying as a dean's list student. If I wasn't allowed on the team because I didn't go to the school, I'd identify as a second-semester sophomore. Why stop there though, I might as well identify as the team's leading scorer and demand my name be put on a plaque somewhere. It's not hurting anyone for me to realize my true self as a successful women's college soccer player, and denying the true me is literally violence (or something like that).

38 posted on 04/12/2021 4:03:53 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Stravinsky

No more NCAA funding. Period.


39 posted on 04/12/2021 4:04:02 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Stravinsky

States hold firm. XX chromosomes don’t need to compete against XY chromosomes that THINK they’re XY.

PERIOD. FULL STOP. END OF STORY.

I don’t care what Asa Hutchinson thinks.


40 posted on 04/12/2021 4:04:10 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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