Women’s Advocacy Group Threatens Legal Action Against NCAA Unless Transgender Policy Is Repealed: “Keep Women’s Sports Female”

A group of female athletes, both current and former, delivered a program on Thursday. Demand a letter from the NCAA A call to end the practice that biological male athletes can compete on female teams. 

Formers hand delivered a petition and demand letter. Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines It is a demand of the NCAA “take direct and immediate action to establish rules to keep women’s collegiate sports female.”

Riley Gaines, a former swimmer for the University of Kentucky, speaks at a rally held outside of San Antonio’s NCAA Convention on Thursday, January 12, 2023. 
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“In the world of college sports, it is impossible to provide equal opportunities for both sexes (as required by Title IX) without female-only teams,” It reads: “Yet the NCAA implements and perpetuates a policy of allowing male athletes on women’s teams, even as sports governing bodies and federal courts increasingly reject these unjust and inequitable policies that exclude young women from their own teams.”

The demand letter, which threatened legal action against the NCAA if they did not respond to the demand was read out front of the NCAA convention in San Antonio Texas on Thursday. “protect female athletes from discrimination on the basis of sex.”

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“The NCAA cannot pick and choose which laws to follow,” Marshi Smith is a NCAA Champion, and co-founder at ICONS. “They must protect female athletes from discrimination on the basis of sex, or expect we will be forced to take legal steps to compel them to do so.”  

The NCAA must comply with the letter “repeal all policies and rules that allow male athletes to take roster spots on women’s teams and/or compete in women’s events.” 

After finishing 5th in the 200 freestyle finals of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, Lia Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania and Riley Gaines from Kentucky, they react.
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It also requires that rules be established. “keep women’s sports female” The NCAA should require colleges to have single-sex locker rooms available for female athletes.

Gaines, who competed against Lia Thomas last year – the first transgender athlete to win a national title – also spoke on Thursday, calling for the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes.   

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“Today, we intend to personally tell the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes by handing them a petition that we have garnered nearly 10,000 signatures on in just a couple of days,” Gaines said Thursday. 

The NCAA has updated its Transgender participation policy last January to defer to the guidance of each sport’s governing body. The NCAA announced that its policy would become effective in March, starting with the Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

Riley Gaines, a former swimmer for the University of Kentucky, speaks at a rally outside of San Antonio’s NCAA Convention. 
(AP Photo/Darren Abate)

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USA Swimming updated its policy shortly after requiring transgender athletes who are competing at an elite level to have low levels of testosterone — half of what Thomas was allowed to compete with — for at least 36 months before being eligible, but the NCAA said weeks later that the Administrative Subcommittee of the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CMAS) decided that it wouldn’t alter its testosterone guidance, stating that “implementing additional changes at this time could have unfair and potentially detrimental impacts on schools and student-athletes intending to compete in 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships.”

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos and the Associated Press contributed to this report.