It looks like at least one good thing came out of Lia Thomas decimating the hopes and dreams of the Penn State Female swim team. After Thomas broke female records, the NCAA realized that their standards on trans are not good enough. So they are making it stricter in an effort to close the gap.
“The policy is effective starting with the 2022 winter championships. Transgender student-athletes will need to document sport-specific testosterone levels beginning four weeks before their sport’s championship selections. Starting with the 2022-23 academic year, transgender student-athletes will need documented levels at the beginning of their season and second documentation six months after the first. They will also need documented testosterone levels four weeks before championship selections. Full implementation would begin with the 2023-24 academic year.
“We are steadfast in our support of transgender student-athletes and the fostering of fairness across college sports,” said John DeGioia, chair of the board and Georgetown president. “It is important that NCAA member schools, conferences, and college athletes compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment and can move forward with a clear understanding of the new policy.”
“Approximately 80% of U.S. Olympians are either current or former college athletes,” said Mark Emmert, NCAA president. “This policy alignment provides consistency and further strengthens the relationship between college sports and the U.S. Olympics.”
“The changes to the policy came after a transgender swimmer, who was deemed eligible to compete as a woman after a male-to-female transition, broke records during the competition for the University of Pennsylvania female swim team. The NCAA’s previous policy was to allow male swimmers to compete as female following one year of testosterone suppression.”
If only there was some way you could sort people where this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. Maybe by actual genders… But I guess that would make sense. They created this problem when they allowed men to join females on their sports teams and the solution is so easy that even Libs could do it, stop letting men play on female teams.
