NCAA Policy Change: Men Barred From Women’s Sports

NCAA Policy Change: Men Barred From Women's Sports

NCAA Policy Change: Men Barred From Women’s Sports

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting men from playing women’s sports, the NCAA fell in line on Thursday, announcing a new policy that limits college women’s sports to those “assigned female at birth only.”

The NCAA has been criticized — most acutely and frequently by Republican lawmakers — for adopting a policy in January 2022 that abdicated ruling on men playing in women’s sports by leaving it up to the national governing bodies of each sport to come up with their own eligibility standards, policies that allowed men in women’s sports and locker rooms.

It took Trump’s order on Wednesday to put an end to that. The NCAA one day later announced that its Board of Governors voted to update its participation policy for transgender athletes.

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