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."
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Why discriminate?
Have men and women all compete in the same leagues.
No matter what they choose to wear
What about discrimination against those of us with a Biblical morality?
ML/NJ
From the sound of things, the kids and coaches don't want help from Republicans. In fact they hate you.
Every 100 yard dash would turn into a drag race
That is, “country-wide!”
He was awesome.
Worked in Russia..Bruno competed as Bruna.
Lol...the racist, mysogonist leftists found a way to use women then destroy them....oh this is too funny.
The East Germans pumped their women athletes so full of hormones, they literally turned into men.
Why is it so hard to just have men compete against men, women against woman, transwhatevers complete against transwhatevers.
We live in a world of fiction where most people or people in authority pretend bizarre things are normal.
Real girls matter...RGM!
All these colleges should just start their own version of the NCAA.
Eff the NCAA.
Agreed
The NCAA has lost its mind.
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).
No more NCAA funding. Period.
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.
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