{"id":1768621,"date":"2022-12-09T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768621"},"modified":"2022-12-09T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:37:52","slug":"usrowing-to-allow-dudes-to-compete-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usrowing-to-allow-dudes-to-compete-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"USRowing to Allow Dudes to Compete in Women&#8217;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusrowing-to-allow-dudes-to-compete-in-womens-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/original_rowing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On December 1, USRowing, the governing body for the sport of rowing in the United States, released the first update to their <a href=\"https:\/\/usrowing.org\/documents\/2022\/11\/28\/USRowing_GenderIdentityPolicy_20221201.pdf\">transgender policy<\/a> since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>For youth and adult athletes, the new guidance states that they &#8220;shall be allowed to participate in a rowing activity in accordance with such athlete\u2019s expressed gender identity irrespective of the sex listed on their birth certificate, and regardless of whether the athlete has undergone any medical treatments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>College Athletes are under the restrictions of the NCAA guidelines, which are governed by the World Rowing\u2019s Rule book. This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transathlete.com\/_files\/ugd\/2bc3fc_80cba3d40ee84cb59a70c8e1e83a7f7e.pdf\">states<\/a> that a male can compete in the women&#8217;s category if their testosterone levels are below 5 nmol\/L for 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starting on March 1, 2023, USRowing will use four categories for their competitions: Women, Men, Mixed Events which are open only to those in the Masters Division, and an &#8220;Open Gender&#8221; category. In Mixed Events, a team must consist of 50 percent athletes &#8220;assigned female at birth,&#8221; and 50 percent &#8220;athletes of any gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rules state that athletes can compete as a gender different than their birth gender, and must register prior to the season with their preferred gender. A note is made for female athletes taking testosterone, who must compete in the Men\u2019s category. No other notes are made for those who could be taking other cross-sex hormones, like men taking estrogen.<\/p>\n<p>As the new guidance was being reviewed in October, Co-founder for the Independent Council on Women&#8217;s Sports (ICONS) Marshi Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2022\/10\/21\/2539512\/0\/en\/ICONS-Seeks-Justice-as-Transgender-Proposal-Sinks-Fairness-in-US-Rowing.html\">urged USRowing<\/a>\u00a0not to implement these policies. She stated, &#8220;sadly, many don\u2019t realize that without making the women and girls category exclusive to females, as USRowing has failed to do, they are overtly discriminating against their female athletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years we have seen many sports organizations changing the Transgender policies for their sports. After Lia Thomas went from being a mediocre men&#8217;s swimmer to winning the NCAA 500 Freestyle in swimming, USA Swimming <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/usa-swimming-changes-rules-for-transgender-athletes-putting-lia-thomas-career-in-question\">changed their policy<\/a>\u00a0to require testosterone levels under 5 nmol\/L for over 36 months. The NCAA decided to allow individual sports organizations to determine the policy for each sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Science is now supporting the notion that trans women can never eliminate their biological advantage with hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Following a study, the UK Sports council <a href=\"https:\/\/equalityinsport.org\/resources\/index.html\">recommended<\/a> establishing an open category. In September of 2021, the Sports Councils Equality Group (SCEG) said, &#8220;for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Post Millennial caught up with Marshi Smith, who said, &#8220;the Biden Administration&#8217;s proposed Title IX changes have emboldened sports governing bodies like USRowing to prioritize male feelings over female rower\u2019s rights to equal opportunities for success on the water. If a male can simply self identify into a sporting category, then we will see all womens sports categories become mens categories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, USRowing, the governing body for the sport of rowing in the United States, released the first update to their transgender policy since 2016.For youth and adult athletes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1768624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6978,6977,3819,3847,6979,4694],"class_list":["post-1768621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-compete","tag-dudes","tag-report","tag-sports","tag-usrowing","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}