By james art 
Last week, thousands of collegial athletic officials gathered for the NCAA Annual Convention, where they pointed out their latest fundraising tactics, discussed how to “be” more inclusive “non-athletes and LGBT, and argued about the effects of sports sports Bets. The most important and urgent topic-whether athletes have the right to play in teams that include only sex-hardly mentioned and even avoided.
However, this issue will define the confidence in NCAA as an athletic governing body.
NCAA changed its participation policy in 2010 to allow transacted men to participate in women’s sports events as long as they have passed a year of testosterone suppression. After it became clear that this rule led to the stolen opportunities from women athletes, the organization again changed its policy in 2022 to allow individual sports to determine their own eligibility requirements.
Officials claim that this update is their best chance of providing “inclusion” and “justice” for both women and transgender athletes. But NCAA athletes would like to differ.
In the past year alone, five female volleyball teams from the 1st Division were forced to give up the opportunity to compete, losing matches against a regional rival, which included a transacted male player in his team. The alternative – a competition against a physically dominant male player who ended the season with 314 killer strikes – was risks that would threaten the safety of women’s players.
Unfortunately, concerns about the well -being of the athletes were neglected by university officials and NCAA employees who refused to intervene.
In the exclusive series for Independent Women Features, published last week, several players from the University of Nevada University, Rino, revealed that university administrators were pressing them to continue their planned match against the male player, demanding their fears about the honest And a safe race were “misinformed” and “uneducated”.
The only “misinformed” is those who continue to deny the obvious physical differences between gender. On average, male volleyball players can hit the ball 20-30 percent harder than women; They can jump about 4 to 6 inches higher than females; have higher durability and durability than females; And more and more. These biological realities do not change, even if someone’s “sexual identity” changes. It is necessary to deliberate ignorance to pretend to the contrary.
Too many leaders, especially those at the top of athletic organizations such as NCAA, have chosen ignorance to common sense of fear of not looking “discriminatory”. But by allowing the invasion of women’s sports, the NCAA chose a different, albeit approved by the left, a form of discrimination: one that deprives women athletes of their personal spaces, their teams and their capabilities.
The University of Nevada’s Women’s Volleyball Team, Rino, did not want to bear this insult sitting. Despite the school’s attempts to move forward with the NCAA-approved match against the transacted male player, 16 of the 17 toys of the team refused to play. In this way, they proved that they have something else that seems to be missing from NCAA: courage.
Although the NCAA Board of Directors said its transsexual participation policy is being revised again, the organization seems reluctant to change its catastrophic policy for 2022 at its request. In a statement to reporters prior to his address to the NCAA Convention last week, NCAA President Charlie Baker said he could not commit to any changes until additional federal guidelines were published. NCAA Governing Board Chairman Linda Livingston also said they “will continue to monitor potential changes to the provisions of Title IX, the results of pending court cases and the impact of changes at the federal level.”
With this, Baker and Livingston are almost certainly referring to President Donald Trump’s promise to use federal power to protect women’s sport. This week, Trump has signed an executive order that explains that there are only two sexes and that they are not interchangeable.
There will be more from the White House on this. But NCAA should not wait for Trump to issue additional guidance and impose it. The organization has the chance to lead on this issue right now, instead of waiting for the Trump administration, or a federal judge, or any other, to change NCAA’s policy for it.
Sia Leili, McKena Dresel, Kinsli Singleton, and other players from the University of Nevada University, Reno certainly did not have the opportunity to wait in the background when their physical safety was put on a map. They deserve leaders who are ready to take a position, just as they were.
Instead of responding to changing political waves, the NCAA must choose to be a proactive participant in the struggle to return our country and culture to common sense. Do not be fooled: we will win this battle with or without a baby and his colleagues sports leaders. But it would certainly be nice to have more allies along the way.
Cayley McGey White is the editor -in -chief of Independent Women Features, the Independent Women storytelling part.