The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA ) was requested by the U.S. Department of Education to” correct the records” of all the female athletes whose titles and awards were stolen by men who allegedly posed as women in a match.
The NCAA has already announced it will no longer allow male competitors to compete against female competitors in a letter addressed to Charlie Baker, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Bob Lombardi, president of the National Federation of State High School Associations ( NFHS).
According to Deputy General Counsel Candice Jackson, Deputy General Counsel of the Education Department,” Members will no longer be allowed to engage in women’s sports regardless of how they identify,” and the NCAA has appropriately changed its position regarding its discriminatory practices against female athletes.  ,” The second important step is to restore sport records to women who have for years been devalued, ignored, and forced to watch men take their accolades. The Trump Education Department will do everything in its power to correct this error and support the hard-earned victories of former, existing, and aspiring female college players.  ,
Folks like Lia Thomas, a man who notably stole the 2022 NCAA Division I regional championship in 500-yard free floating from the people he was competing against, would lose their names if the NCAA and NFHS agreed.
The request is in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order,” Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”, and says that the two sports organizations should create policies in line with the” clear, fact-based language” in Trump’s” Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” order. The email notes that part of the reason for the” Children’s Sports” purchase is to prevent serious injuries incurred by female players from larger, stronger female companies.
More than half a million student athletes from the NCAA’s 1,100 member organizations rely on the NCAA to” [p]rovide a world-class sports and educational experience for student-athletes that creates longtime well-being. That mission has been, and will be, compromised until the NCAA completely commits to justice for women athletes—in the current, the future, and the past. Similar to the NFHS, which creates the rules for high school sports, owes r]sic ] it to the millions of high school students who “provide leadership… through the writing of playing rules that emphasize health and safety.”
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We can’t undo the harm done by years of policies and practices that have denied the immanent reality of sex and conjured it with a fluid, subjective notion of “identity” by prospectively returning to objective, factual sex classifications in athletics. However, we can acknowledge the harms and injustices caused by these misguided policies and reverse their effects, which will allow for girls and women to have equal opportunities in all athletic competition in the United States.
Further, the Trump administration completely changed the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine” sex” to include a wide range of claimed gender identities for purposes of civil rights law in Title IX in line with protecting women’s sports and women and girls at school in general.
A U.S. district court blocked the Biden rules nationwide shortly before Trump took office, prompting the policy reversal.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a Publius Fellow at the 2022 Claremont Institute and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
