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Biological male trans -fun volleyball player Emma Morquecho sues Westcliff University and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) – an alternative university sports -governing body to NCAA – after demanding that a scholarship offer be revoked and the eligibility was rejected.
The trial was announced by the Civil Rights Organization Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Maldef).
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“The Latino community is often first to be targeted under the practice of irrational discrimination, and this case falls within this pattern,” Maldef President and Attorney General, Thomas A. Saenz, said in a statement. “Discrimination based on stereotypical and false assumption must end against trans athletes, especially in California, where so many of those injured will be members of the state’s largest racial/ethnic community.”
Pakinomist Digital has reached Westcliff University and NAIA for comment.
The trial alleged Morquecho revealed the athlete’s birth chef to university officials in 2022 and later received a scholarship offer. Morquecho claims that on August 10, 2023, the head coach of Westcliff Women’s Volleyball Team EN e -mail back in which the athlete was not eligible to play that fall and that Westcliff recalled the scholarship.
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“By taking a position, I don’t just fight for myself. I speak for any trans person who has been taved and I hope my voice gives others in our society the opportunity to know their stories and their rights,” Morquecho said via statement from Maldef. “Together we can create a future where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.”
President Donald Trump signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5 and ignited a crash of men in women’s university sports. NCAA changed its gender eligibility policy already the next day to exclude all biological men from competing in the women’s category.
However, NAIA got a lead on this trend in April 2024 when it changed its gender eligibility policy.
The revised policy stated that all athletes can participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports, but only athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth is female and who has not started hormone treatment are allowed to participate in women’s sports.
A student who began hormone therapy can participate in activities such as training, practice and team activities, but not in interscholastic competition.
Now Morquecho is looking to contest this rule before the court.
