The NAIA voted unanimously to require athletes to compete based on birth sex, becoming the first national collegiate sports body to ban male-born athletes from the women’s field.
the policy Monday on a 20-0 vote at its annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, ruling that as of Aug. 1, “only students whose biological sex is female” will be able to participate in women’s athletics.President and CEO Jim Carr said in a press release. “With input from our member institutions and the Transgender Task Force, theFemale students transitioning to male may compete in women’s sports only if they have not begun “any masculinizing hormone therapy.
“If you consider yourself a woman, and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play,” Staley said at the Saturday press conference. “That’s my opinion.”women’s swimming championship. In 2019, Franklin Pierce University student CeCe Telfer took the 400-meter hurdles at the Division II women’s track-and-field championship.
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