Law More than a dozen female athletes sue NCAA over their transgender participation policy

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More than a dozen female athletes sue NCAA over their transgender participation policy

The lawsuit stems from an NCAA policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in the category of their affirmed gender on a sport-by-sport basis.

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More than a dozen female athletes sue NCAA over their transgender participation policy​

More than a dozen female athletes sue NCAA over their transgender participation policy​

Move than a dozen female athletes have sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association over its transgender participation policy, which the athletes claim violates their rights under Title IX, the law that prohibits discrimination based on sex at any institution that receives federal funding.

The lawsuit stems from the January 2022 ruling by the NCAA Board of Governors that allows transgender athletes to compete in the category of their affirmed gender on a sport-by-sport basis. The NCAA said that this ruling "preserves opportunity for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion and safety for all who compete."

This week, 16 female athletes across sports like swimming, soccer and track and field, filed the lawsuit, saying in the lawsuit that they "bring this case to secure for future generations of women the promise of Title IX that is being denied them and other college women."

"A lot of people ask us, why did we wait this long to file a lawsuit? Well, we waited this long to allow the NCAA every opportunity to make the right decision," Kaitlynn Wheeler, a former University of Kentucky swimmer, told ABC News.

"The NCAA's most basic job is to protect the fairness and the safety of its athletes, and it has failed on that simple task," Wheeler said.

The complaint highlights an alleged incident at the 2022 NCAA national swimming championship-- weeks after the NCAA's ruling -- involving former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who was competing for the University of Pennsylvania.

According to the lawsuit, Gaines had tied in fifth place with Thomas in the 200 free competition, but that as they prepared for the podium ceremony, Gaines was told by an NCAA official that only Thomas would be allowed to hold the fifth-place trophy.

Gaines says in the lawsuit she questioned the official, who the complaint alleges told her, "I'm so sorry, we have been advised that when photos are taken it is crucial that Lia Thomas holds the trophy."

"The secret of Thomas' meteoric ascendance and dominance in NCAA women's swimming was retained male advantage," the lawsuit alleges. Thomas had previously competed in the men's category prior to the NCAA's ruling.

"What the plaintiffs are really after is an equal and fair opportunity to succeed. For everybody to be equal at the starting line," William Bock, the lead attorney in the lawsuit, told ABC News.

In a statement, the NCAA said that while it "does not comment on pending litigation, the Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women's sports and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships."

The NCAA set themselves up for this lawsuits. Allowing biological males to compete against biological women does appear to violate Title IX.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Good. i hope they win.
get those creeps out of women's sports.

 

[oldshadow]

Good but the left will try to ruin their life's for this.
I hope they win.

 

[nostradumbass]

You're denying their existence when you tell these fellas they can't crush girls at sports and then jiggle their dicks at them in the locker room. I can't even, I am literally shaking. #literallygenocide

 

[Lucas1980]

Its good to see Women actually standing up for actual Womens Rights again..

 

[KOByFootStomp]

I still don't understand the lefts hatred for women and why they are trying strip their rights away. They want men to dominate their sports, have access to their personnel spaces, they even are taking away their accolades by naming men as "Woman of the year" as well as other awards.

 

[Ron Mexico]

In before all the sherdoggers with daughters, come flooding in to defend male participation in female sport

 

[Lord_Impaler]

You’re telling me that lady in the back that looks like a middle linebacker has some kind of unfair advantage?

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Its good to see Women actually standing up for actual Womens Rights again..

It is a little annoying though the way liberals vote for this shit and then only wake up when it affects them personally. Give them a million examples of it hurting other people and they don't give two shits.

 

[Rygu]

Gaines says in the lawsuit she questioned the official, who the complaint alleges told her, "I'm so sorry, we have been advised that when photos are taken it is crucial that Lia Thomas holds the trophy."

Just in case anyone doesn't think theres some sort of social agenda...

 

[Lucas1980]

It is a little annoying though the way liberals vote for this shit and then only wake up when it affects them personally. Give them a million examples of it hurting other people and they don't give two shits.

Its no different how the pander to the minority communities and then welcome mass immigration legal or not when that directly and negatively hurt those communities the most.

 

[Two Crows]

The interesting question here, to my mind, is whether the court will have to rule on what is a woman due the wording of Title IX.

Will that constitute legal precedent? If so, expect a lot of appeals until it ends up with the SCOTUS.

 

[spamking]

In before all the sherdoggers with daughters, come flooding in to defend male participation in female sport

My daughters played volleyball and soccer. No way I'd want either of them playing against a dude.

 

[Death By Samson]

The interesting question here, to my mind, is whether the court will have to rule on what is a woman due the wording of Title IX.

Will that constitute legal precedent? If so, expect a lot of appeals until it ends up with the SCOTUS.

Good luck to whoever has to go before the SC and argue that boys are actually girls. I'm sure that that will go over really, really well for them.

 

[Whippy McGee]

This is a positive step. Let's hope they win.

Until women stand up for themselves like this, they are going to get hosed in the locker rooms and on the podiums.

If they can all agree to NOT leave the blocks in a swimming event, where a trans-athlete is competing with them and allow the dude to swim the whole race to 1st place and then they all take off when he touches the wall and swim for 2nd Place and on only, they'd capture the nation / world and this shit would end. When a trans-athlete makes the podium in any sport, the women should refuse to take the podium with them. Let there be tons of photos with a dude by himself on the podium.

 

[syct23]

This is a positive step. Let's hope they win.

Until women stand up for themselves like this, they are going to get hosed in the locker rooms and on the podiums.

If they can all agree to NOT leave the blocks in a swimming event, where a trans-athlete is competing with them and allow the dude to swim the whole race to 1st place and then they all take off when he touches the wall and swim for 2nd Place and on only, they'd capture the nation / world and this shit would end. When a trans-athlete makes the podium in any sport, the women should refuse to take the podium with them. Let there be tons of photos with a dude by himself on the podium.

Can’t wait for the Olympics to come back to the U.S.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Why can't women just put the effort in, do better and win?

This seems like a cowardly shortcut.

 

[GolovKing]

Only 16? That tells me that female athletes as a whole don't really care that much. It should be higher

 

[NoSmilez]

Their complaints are valid except for the women in Track and Field. Respectfully those bishes aren't beating Bork's kid anyways.

 

[Gutter Chris]

Why can't women just put the effort in, do better and win?

This seems like a cowardly shortcut.

Assuming you arent trolling ... Genetics is why they cant put in the effort and do better my man. Nothing cowardly about a chick who doesnt want to compete with a dude