On Thursday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) updated its participation policy for transgender athletes, restricting competition in women's sports to those assigned female at birth. The decision followed President Donald Trump's executive order the previous day, which aimed to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. The executive order allows federal agencies to withhold funding from entities that do not comply with Title IX, interpreting "sex" as the gender assigned at birth according to the Trump administration's stance.
The NCAA is changing its guidance to align with President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender athletes in women’s sports, president Charlie Baker announced Wednesday.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has agreed to retool its participation rules to exclude transgender athletes from playing in women’s college sports on the heels of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.