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NCAA and Their Controversial Transgender Policy
Posted On 20 Jan 2022
Update: This article was written before the NCAA changed their transgender policy.
People who are born male and then medically transition to live as females later in life, also known as “transgender females,” have stirred up controversy over the last couple years due to dominating women’s sports. As transgender females, they identify as women, dress as women, and usually wish to be called by newly chosen female names.
But, their bodies retain the strength advantages they gained from going through normal male puberty when they were younger. Testosterone suppression therapy is part of the medical transitioning process, but testosterone’s effects on their physical abilities don’t just go away. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is the latest athlete to make headlines. Born a male, she now identifies as a woman and has dominated swimming events while competing on women’s teams.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) currently requires a minimum of one year of testosterone suppression therapy for trans athletes to compete in the women’s division. Some scientists argue that this isn’t enough to level the playing field and protect the integrity of women’s sports. Parents of Penn students and women’s sports advocates have spoken out about the unfairness of a natural-born male competing against swimmers who were born female.
Both Penn and the Ivy League issued statements defending Thomas and the NCAA policy. But the NCAA has yet to declare its position on the hot-button issue. NCAA’s board of governors is expected to review the policy later this week and issue a statement, according to their spokesperson who talked to Fox News Digital.
Several studies from recent years show that one year of testosterone suppression therapy isn’t enough to ensure a fair competition between a transgender female and cisgender female, or those who are natural-born women.
The latest study was released last month by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute of Canada. It states that “there is neither a medical intervention nor a clever philosophical argument that can make it fair for trans women to compete in women’s sport.” The study goes on to say, “For trans women who have successfully suppressed testosterone for 12 months, the extent of muscle/strength loss is only an approximation (and modest) -5% after 12 months. Testosterone suppression does not remove the athletic advantage acquired under high testosterone conditions at puberty, while the male musculoskeletal advantage is retained.”
The study recommends alternative means of including trans women in athletic competition, such as restructuring the male category as “Open” and the women’s category as “Female,” meaning only women who had “female” recorded on their birth certificate.
An article published on WebMD in July of last year backed up the Canadian study’s findings. Joanna Harper, a transgender competitive runner, and British medical physicist, said that there’s “absolutely no question” that trans women maintain strength advantages of cisgender women, even after testosterone suppression.
“That’s based on my clinical experience, rather than published data, but I would say there’s zero doubt in my mind,” Harper told WebMD.
With the growing mountain of evidence against the equality of an umbrella inclusivity policy, it will be interesting to see what the NCAA board of governors decides. Stay tuned for the final verdict.
Pretty simple answer…..Those confused men must have the same testosterone blood level as their female competitors. End of problem.
Testosterone is NOT the issue; DNA is! The advantages are built into them from conception with XY DNA!
GOD made 2 genders men and women for the purpose of appropriation, period. Any reference and support of anything else is totally wrong. IF people believe there is no biological difference between a male and female they are totally brainwashed. GOD help us when supposedly ‘INTELLIGENT’ people believe otherwise. Time for people who can think for themselves to stand up for what is right.
Those advantages are GENETIC; encoded at conception with XY DNA; & they are woven into XY bodies from conception on; puberty has nothing to do with it any more than testosterone does!
they need a third party
AMERICA FREAKS
SIMPLE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO CREATE AN EXTRA TRANS GENDER EVENT…..LIKE AGAINST LIKE….
IM SURE THERE ARE ENOUGH TRANSGENDERS WHO WOULD BE HAPPY TO COMPETE AGAINST THEIR OWN KIND…..AND NOT FEEL AT AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE AGAINST THEIR FELLOW ATHLETES,!!!!!!!!!!
Joyce Jones
Who is going to watche them
There are no born transgenders there is only girls born or boys born, the only reason a male athlete claims to be a woman is because he is not good enough to compete on the male level, by NCAA rules a male can cheat and beat women at their sports because a born male most times has an advantage over women, they are born stronger, so the cheater gets to preen over true women by being a stealer of titles that belong to a born female
Here’s one solution.
Replace existing gender categories to these three:
(1) Transies
(2) Pansies
(3) Would-be mansies.
Transgenders have the right to be as confused as they choose to be. The do not have the right to impose their confusion on the rest of us. How is it that a State that has decided that it cannot legislate morality has no problem legislating immorality>
There will NEVER be a level playing field when MEN compete against WOMEN. Only when transgenders compete against other transgenders will there ever be a level playing field. Stop the WAR on `165 million American females.
there are two genders. No way around the DNA designation of male / female !
The rights of the transgendered should NEVER take precedence over the rights of biological females. It’s as simple as that.