Dr. Jack Turban, director of the Gender Psychiatry program at the University of California, San Francisco, who specializes in the mental health of transcend young people, retired from a NCAA committee on Friday after the organization complied with President Donald Trump’s executive order.
Trump signed an executive order to protect women’s sports. The order banned biological men from competing in the sports of women and girls. It gave the authority of the federal government to punish the federally funded units that “deprive women and girls of believe athletic opportunities.”
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the eastern space of the White House, Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In response, NCAA changed its trans-inclusion policy to ban transnry athletes from women’s sports. Turban wrote a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker, who announced his resignation from the NCAA committee on competitive protection measures and medical aspects of sports (CSMAS).
“Unfortunately, your recent decision to issue a blanket ban on trans -woman’s participation in women’s sports is not with medical or scientific consensus,” read Turban’s letter. “I cannot, in good conscience, participate in this kind of politicization of science and medicine at the expense of some of our most vulnerable students athletes.
“I am very grateful for my time with CSMAs and have been impressed with the academic and medical rigor that the committee brings to ensure competitiveness and security for students athletes. I am especially grateful to have had the opportunity of the committee.
Trump pronounces executive order that keeps biological men from women’s sports
President Donald Trump speaks in the eastern space of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“However, it is clear that your decision was based on politics and not science as CSMA’s membership was not heard before the decision.”
NCAA announced the change one day after Trump signed the executive order.
“NCAA is an organization that consists of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that gather more than 530,000 student athletes,” Baker said in a statement. “We are convinced that clear, consistent and uniform eligibility standards will best serve today’s student athletes instead of a patchwork of contradictory state laws and judicial decisions. To this end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.
“The updated policy combined with these resources follows on NCAA’s constitutional obligation to deliver inter-college athletics competition and to protect, support and improve the mental and physical health of student athletes,” Baker said. “This national standard brings much needed clarity as we modernize university sports for today’s student athletes.”
Trump’s executive order banned biological men from competing in women’s and girls’ sports. (Scott Taetsch/NCAA -Photos via Getty Images)
Turban added in an Instagram post, “I’m sorry to see #ncaa Politicize Science and Medicine at the expense of some of our most vulnerable students athletes.”
