{"id":2216477,"date":"2024-04-09T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-in-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:05:40","slug":"naia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIA College Athletics Organization Implements Policy Restricting Transgender Men from Participating 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\">28<\/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%2Fnaia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-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=2216477&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--><p>The NAIA, governing sports \u2063at 240+ small colleges, \u2064passed a policy banning transgender men from women&#8217;s\u200d teams for fair competition.\u200b Only biological females can play women&#8217;s sports. Bio women \u2062on hormone therapy can train but not compete against other schools.\u2064 All eligible athletes can\u200c join \u2062male teams, except\u200b for cheer and dance. The new policy follows a task force \u2064recommendation in 2022. \u200bThe NAIA, which oversees sports at over 240 small colleges, has implemented \u2064a\u200d policy\u200d that\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cycling-organization-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-womens-bike-races\/\" title=\"Cycling group prohibits transgender men from participating in women's races.\">prohibits transgender men<\/a> from participating in women&#8217;s team sports to ensure fairness. The \u200dregulation dictates that only biological females are eligible to compete in women&#8217;s sports.\u2064 Female athletes undergoing hormone therapy can practice but not compete against other\u2062 institutions. Additionally, all eligible athletes are allowed to join male \u200dteams, with the exception of\u2063 cheer and dance. This\u2062 new policy aligns with \u200ca recommendation from a task force formed in 2022.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which governs sports at more than 240 small colleges, announced a new policy on Monday banning trans-identifying male athletes from playing on women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n<p>The NAIA Council of Presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/naia-transgender-ban-ad422f3a86ebcc4db618750c6a5d1c5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved<\/a> the new policy unanimously, 20-0, during its annual convention at its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The college athletics organization explained that it supports \u201cfair and safe competition\u201d for all its athletes and said Title IX ensures \u201cseparate and equal\u201d opportunities for female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored female sports,\u201d the\u00a0new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naia.org\/transgender\/files\/TG_Policy_for_webpage_v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>Biological women who are taking \u201cmasculinizing hormone therapy\u201d may participate in workouts, practices, and team activities on the women\u2019s teams, but they cannot compete against other schools.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all \u201celigible\u201d student-athletes may compete on male teams, the policy says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach NAIA sport includes some combination of strength, speed, and stamina, providing competitive advantages for male student-athletes,\u201d reads the policy. \u201cAs a result, the NAIA policy for transgender student-athletes applies to all sports except for competitive cheer and competitive dance, which are open to all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes at the recommendation of a task force the NAIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naia.org\/transgender\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formed<\/a> in 2022 to examine the trans-identifying athlete issue.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2022, the NAIA\u2019s policy mirrored that of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the larger organization with more than a thousand schools and the top college football and basketball programs. The NCAA allows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-woman-man-crowned-glamour-brazils-woman-of-the-year\/\" title=\"\u2018There\u2019s No Such Thing As A Woman\u2019: Man Crowned Glamour Brazil\u2019s \u2018Woman Of The Year\u2019\">trans-identifying men<\/a> to play on women\u2019s teams as long as they take cross-sex hormones for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2022, however, the NAIA started dealing with each sport on a case-by-case basis when it came to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/find-your-voices-ladies-megyn-kelly-gets-fired-up-issues-dire-warning-to-women-over-allowing-trans-identifying-men-into-their-spaces\/\" title=\"\u2018Find Your Voices, Ladies\u2019: Megyn Kelly Gets Fired Up, Issues Dire Warning To Women Over Allowing Trans-Identifying Men Into Their Spaces\">allowing trans-identifying men<\/a> to compete against women.<\/p>\n<p>After two years, the NAIA\u2019s task force ultimately proposed banning trans-identifying men from competing in women\u2019s sports, resulting in Monday\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy is set to go into effect on August 1, just in time for next school year.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know there are a lot of opinions, and a lot of people have a very emotional reaction to this, and we want to be respectful of all that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/naia-transgender-ban-ad422f3a86ebcc4db618750c6a5d1c5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr. \u201cBut we feel like our primary responsibility is fairness in competition, so we are following that path. And we\u2019ve tried as best we could to allow for some participation by all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This school year, the NAIA had 241 schools with 83,000 student-athletes playing for 28 national championships.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, more than a dozen women athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/riley-gaines-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued<\/a> the NCAA over its transgender policy, including former college swimmer Riley Gaines, who had to swim against biological male Lia Thomas at the 2022 national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines and her female teammates also shared a locker room with Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAIA, overseeing sports at 240+ small colleges, unveiled a policy prohibiting transgender men from joining women&#8217;s teams. The NAIA Council of Presidents, at its annual convention in Kansas City, MO, passed the unanimous 20-0 decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2216478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1303499253.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1303499253.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216477","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}