NCAA on Tuesday faced calls to follow in the footsteps of the world’s athletics and adopt gender samples for athletes who want to compete in women’s sports.
The world’s athletics president Sebastian Coe said cheek-swab tests will be used for athletes who want to compete in the female category. He called the process “very straightforward” and held women’s sports fair a question that was “important” to him.
He added that the tests are not invasive and were ready for any criticism that could come his way.
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NCAA faces calls to adopt gender experiments for athletes who want to compete in women’s sports. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
Attorneys for justice in women’s sports called on NCAA to go ahead and change their rules in accordance with World Athletics.
COE promised to protect women’s sports.
“None of these are invasive. They are needed and they will be made to absolutely international medical standards,” he said under a media availability. “I wouldn’t have set off this path in 2016, 2017 to protect the female category in sports if I had been kind of other than prepared to take on the challenge head.
“We have been at the arbitral tribunal of sports on our [difference of sexual development] DSD rules. They have been maintained and again they have been maintained by appeal. We will do doggest protect the female category and we will do what is needed to do so. And we’re not just talking about it. “
President Donald Trump signed “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order in February to prevent biological men from playing against girls and women’s sports.
NCAA followed up by changing its rules for gender participation. The organization said that a “student athlete who was awarded a man at birth may not compete for a women’s team.” The previous politics that had been in place in 2010 allowed biological men to compete in the women’s category after reviewing at least one year of testosterone oppression.
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 on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
However, women’s sports lawyers have pointed out that NCAA’s rules are not going far enough.
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The biggest criticism was that the policy does not go far enough or establish clear barriers to protect women’s athletes in the college rows and that the policy allegedly allows Trans athletes to bypass the restriction by changing gender on their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states allow birth certificates to change to change a person’s birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. In the meantime, there are 14 states that allow sex on a birth certificate to change without required medical documentation, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
Riley Gaines, hosting Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast and former Allamerican swimmer at Kentucky, Pakinomist told Digital in an interview last month that the new NCAA policy is “as clear as mud.”
A NCAA spokesman told Pakinomist Digital that the governing body will not allow trans athletes to compete in the women’s category based on changed birth certificates.
“The policy is aware that there are no exceptions available and athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team with changed birth certificates or other forms of ID,” the spokesman said.
With regard to trans athletes practicing on a women’s team, NCAA considers male practice players as a “staple” of women’s sports.
Riley Gaines speaks at Penn State University. (Riley Gaines)
“Players in male practices have been a staple in college sports for decades, especially in women’s basketball, and the association will continue to explain it in politics,” the spokesman said.
