The NCAA faced the calls on Tuesday to follow the steps of the athletics world and promulgate gender tests for athletes who want to compete in women’s sports.
The president of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, said that suwab cheek tests will be used for athletes who wish to compete in the women’s category. He called the “very simple” process and kept the Women’s Sports Fair a problem that was “important” for him.
He added that the evidence is not invasive and were ready for any criticism that could come.
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The NCAA faces calls to promulgate gender tests for athletes who want to compete in women’s sports. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
The defenders of equity in women’s sports asked the NCAA to go further and alter its rules according to world athletics.
COE promised to protect female sports.
“None of these are invasive. They are necessary and will be made to absolutely international medical standards,” he said during an availability of media. “I would not have activated this path in 2016, 2017 to protect the female category in sport if it had been more than prepared to face the front challenge.
“We have been in the Court of Arbitration for Sports in our [difference of sexual development] DSD regulations. They have been confirmed, and again have been confirmed after the appeal. We will stubbornly protect the female category, and we will do whatever it is necessary to do so. And we are not just talking about that. “
President Donald Trump signed the executive order of “No Men In Women’s Sports” in February to prevent biological men from playing against girls and women’s sports.
The NCAA continued to alter its rules of gender participation. The organization said that a “man assigned to the student assigned to birth may not compete in a team of women.” The previous policy, which had been in force in 2010, allowed biological men to compete in the category of women after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in female sporting events or girls, in the east room of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
However, women’s sports defenders have pointed out that the NCAA rules are not enough.
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The main criticism was that politics does not reach far enough or establishes clear barriers to protect women’s athletes in university ranks and that politics supposedly allows trans athletes to omit the restriction by changing gender in their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states allow altering birth certificates to change the birth sex of a person. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. Meanwhile, there are 14 states that allow sex in a birth certificate to change without required any medical documentation, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
Riley Gaines, the host of the podcast “Gaines for Girls” of Outkick and former American swimmer in Kentucky, told Pak Gazette Digital in an interview last month that the new NCAA policy is “as clear as mud.”
A NCAA spokesman told Pak Gazette Digital that the governing body will not allow Trans athletes to compete in the women’s category based on modified birth certificates.
“Politics is clear that there are no exemptions available, and athletes assigned to men at birth may not compete in a team of women with modified birth certificates or other forms of identification,” said the spokesman.
With regard to athletes, traveling in a female team, NCAA considers that male practice players are a “basic element” of women’s sports.
Riley Gaines speaks at the University of Penn State. (Riley Gaines)
“The male practice players have been a basic element in university sports for decades, particularly in female basketball, and the association will continue to explain that in politics,” said the spokesman.
