The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced an about-face on its 2022 “participation plan” for transgender-identifying athletes this year: No longer are people allowed to self-identify their manner into children’s activities.
The NCAA forced to acknowledge the biological differences between men and women while severely clinging to the anti-science trans-speak “assigned at baby” as if genome beauty is subjective, according to a press release from the NCAA.” The fresh policy limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes assigned feminine at birth only,” the NCAA said in a press release.
Despite the ongoing language abuse, the coverage change is valid and is a direct result of female athletes showing how numerous ways that female athletes have injured them, plus a powerful leader in the White House who is willing to listen and action.
On Wednesday, just one day before the NCAA policy reversal, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (titled simply” Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports” ) that stripped all funding from educational programs that let men and boys infiltrate women’s and girls ‘ athletics. ” It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly”, the order reads, not only for reasons of” safety” and “fairness”, but also to preserve “dignity, and truth”.
The NCAA allowing teenagers to compete against women “is insulting, cruel, and harmful to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and thrive in competitive sports”, Trump’s get says.
The president is reportedly speaking up about the numerous courageous women who have taken their identities and have faced discrimination and harm, as well as the many others. One of these women, NCAA Division 1 performer Sia Liilii, then the commander of the University of Nevada, Reno, women’s tennis group, led her teammates in protesting and therefore forfeiting a match against San Jose State University’s women’s team because it included a trans-identifying adult person. As IW Features highlights in a documentary about Liilii’s experience, her school refused to support its own women’s team.
Swimming at the University of Pennsylvania was forced to leave in the same locker room as their infamous male teammate Lia Thomas during the 2022 season. Paula Scanlan, a swimmer, claimed to be particularly traumatized by this because she “had joined UPenn’s swim team to heal emotionally after being sexually assaulted in a bathroom at the age of 16.”
In many ways, being assaulted helped me quickly realize what was wrong with having to undress in front of and work with a male, Scanlan told IW Features. I understood going through something that was unfair, I understood the feeling of your voice being drowned out by a million people, and it opened me up to seeing this situation on my swim team for what it was.
The issue of male athletes in female sports goes beyond the NCAA. By allowing male participation, other athletic organizations like the Ladies Professional Golf Association have completely destroyed women’s competition. Girls ‘ victimization in their own sports also begins much earlier than in college and the professional leagues. Ask Payton McNabb, who was injured in a high school volleyball match by a powerful spike from a trans-identifying opponent.
As IW Features detailed, a “medical evaluation revealed that the ball’s impact caused neurological impairments, including a concussion, vision problems, and partial paralysis to the right side of her body. The year following her traumatic brain injury, was full of ‘ blank spaces’ that she’ll never remember, McNabb said”.
Without female victims revealing how numerous times men have physically damaged and destroyed their sacred athletic spaces, the NCAA reverse would not have been possible. Some of these women, however, have spent years telling their stories. For instance, in 2022, Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines faced off in a heated argument. So what’s changed?
Then-President Joe Biden wasn’t just an impotent leader. He actively cheered men taking over women’s private spaces, from sports and locker rooms to prisons and bathrooms. He issued biology-defying executive orders and celebrated” transgender visibility” days. When a trans-identifying shooter murdered six people in cold blood at a Christian school in Nashville, Biden exploited the tragedy to praise the” joy, strength, and absolute courage]of] transgender and nonbinary Americans”. He fought against all wrongdoing.
It’s about time we had a leader like Trump who would be listening to the everyday ladyface victims of men once more in the Oval Office. And what do you know? It only took two weeks and one wryly worded executive order for the NCAA to bend the knee.
