‘Correct The Records’: Trump Administration Requests NCAA Strip Men Of Titles Stolen From Women
The U.S. Department of Education requested that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) “correct the records” of all the female athletes whose titles and awards were stolen by males who competed against them while claiming to be women.
The Tuesday letter, addressed to NCAA president Charlie Baker, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Bob Lombardi, president of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), comes after the NCAA already decided it would no longer allow males to compete against females.
“Because of President Trump’s bold leadership, men will no longer be allowed to compete in women’s sports regardless of how they identify, and the NCAA has correctly changed its tune on its discriminatory practices against female athletes,” Education Department Deputy General Counsel Candice Jackson wrote in the letter. “The next necessary step is to restore athletic records to women who have for years been devalued, ignored, and forced to watch men steal their accolades. The Trump Education Department will do everything in our power to right this wrong and champion the hard-earned accomplishments of past, current, and future female collegiate athletes.”
If the NCAA and NFHS comply, it means people like Lia Thomas, a male who infamously stole the 2022 NCAA Division I national championship in 500-yard freestyle swimming from the women against whom he was competing, would have their titles revoked.
The request is in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” and says that the two sports organizations should create policies in line with the “clear, fact-based language” in Trump’s “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” order. The letter notes that part of the reason for the “Women’s Sports” order is to stop serious injuries incurred by female athletes from larger, stronger male competitors.
Over half a million student athletes at the NCAA’s 1,100 member institutions depend on the NCAA to fulfill its mission to “[p]rovide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.” That mission has been, and will remain, compromised until the NCAA fully commits to fairness for female athletes—in the present, the future, and the past. Likewise, the NFHS, which writes the playing rules for high school sports, owes r[sic] it to the millions of high school students to fulfill their mission by “providing leadership … through the writing of playing rules that emphasize health and safety.”
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We cannot undo the damage inflicted by years of policies and practices that have denied the material reality of sex and conflated that immutable characteristic with a subjective, fluid concept of “identity” by prospectively returning to objective, factual sex classifications in athletics. But we can recognize the harms done and injustices committed by such misguided policies and reversing their effects will restore a genuine commitment to girls’ and women’s equality of opportunity in athletic competition across the United States.
Further in line with protecting women’s sports, and women and girls at school generally, the Trump administration completely reversed the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine “sex” to include a wide range of claimed gender identities for purposes of civil rights law in Title IX.
That policy reversal came after a U.S. district court blocked the Biden rules nationwide just prior to Trump taking office.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
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