The NAIA's Council of Presidents has decided to prohibit transgender women from participating in women's sports starting next school year, in order to ensure fair competition.
ban transgender women from women’s competitions starting next school yearAt the NAIA ’s national convention, the Council of Presidents determined that beginning Aug. 1, “only students whose biological sex is female” may compete in women’s sports. That includes transgender men or nonbinary students who are not receiving masculinizing hormones.
NCAA rules allow transgender athletes to compete if they adhere to the guidelines of their international sport governing bodies. Historically, the NCAA has generally advocated for inclusion but has resisted pressure to pull championship events from states that prohibit transgender athletes from competing in publicly funded school sports.
Meanwhile, many international sport governing bodies have been grappling with how to institute scientifically sound and equitable rules. World Aquatics and World Athletics are among the groups that have heavily restricted transgender girls’ and women’s eligibility, barring them from competition if they have experienced testosterone-driven puberty.“I’m 110 percent disappointed,” said Mack Beggs, a transgender man and former NAIA wrestler for Life University in Marietta, Ga.
“ NAIA and NCAA, along with many other sport organizations, teams, and leagues, have been under attack by anti-trans groups and individuals who have made it their life’s work to harm transgender people,” Mosier wrote in an email. “A policy change at this time, without a robust process of engaging experts, athletes, and people with lived experience, is solely based on political pressure.”About 40 out trans athletes are thought to compete in NCAA sports, Baeth said.
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