Riley Gaines, Sage Steele, and other women’s sports advocates are warning about a possible NCAA loophole that could allow trans-identifying male athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Speaking to Fox News, the former collegiate female swimmer said that the new NCAA policy is “explicitly in conflict” with President Donald Trump’s executive order, which bans biological men from competing in women’s sports.
NCAA announced its new policy for “student-athletes ‘assigned male at birth’ and their participation on women’s teams” following Trump’s EO, which uses “gender identity” language instead of male and female definition for sex. And it is this “gender identity” language that has Gaines and other advocates for girls sports concerned.
“No. 1, first and foremost, this policy removes all accountability from the NCAA, which, of course, is something that has…
