US National Collegiate Athletic Association bans transgender women from women’s sports
'A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete for an NCAA women's team,' association says a day after Trump's executive order
WASHINGTON
The US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the largest college sports governing body in the country, announced Thursday that it is banning transgender women student-athletes from competing in women’s sports.
"A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete for an NCAA women's team," it said.
The NCAA issued the new policy a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports” to ban transgender women from competing in women’s and girls' sports.
"We strongly believe that clear, consistent and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard," said NCAA President Charlie Baker.
