Posted on 04/08/2024 5:01:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A national college athletics association has banned biological males who claim to be females from competing in women’s sports, a win for women’s rights.
As the number of injuries inflicted and titles stolen by men competing in female sports and events continues to climb, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) made the right decision, becoming the first national college governing body to make it mandatory for athletes to compete based on their biological sex, according to CBS Sports.
NAIA president Jim Carr admitted to CBS Sports that there are “different opinions” about transgenders competing in women’s sports, but fortunately, his organization came down on the side of reality. "For us, we believed our first responsibility was to create fairness and competition in the NAIA,” Carr said, adding, “We also think it aligns with the reasons Title IX was created. You're allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete.”
CBS Sports was highly disgruntled and virtuously indignant, refusing to state that the move prevents biological men from pretending to be women and thus from harming real women:
Athletes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will only be allowed to compete in women's sports if they were assigned the female gender at birth, the national small-college organization announced Monday.
The NAIA's Council of Presidents approved the policy in a 20-0 vote Monday morning after a December survey indicated widespread support for the move. The association's previous policy only applied to postseason competition. The new directive applies to all NAIA competitions.
The NAIA is a national athletic governing body for 249 mostly small colleges across the country that are not part of the NCAA's three divisions of competition…athletes [must] compete according to assigned sex at birth.
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Just thinking I might assign my next boy as black at birth. Would give him lots of advantages in securing Government contracts if he wishes to go into business for himself.
Just thinking...
As one person pointed out it has everything to do with muscle mass and nothing to do with somebody’s perception.
Sex is not assigned at birth, except perhaps in a legal sense.
Sex is determined at conception by the combination of X and Y sex chromosomes a baby receives from the egg and the sperm.
This could draw a number of good women athletes that would normally play in the NCAA
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