No Policy Shift: NCAA Boss Reacts to New SCOTUS Ruling on Transgender Athletes

In the wake of the Supreme Court decisions in the cases West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, which cleared the way for states to ban boys and men from girls' and women's sports, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hasn't changed any of its policies, which already barred males from competing against females. Note that language: "...barred males from competing."

On Sunday, Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, stated that he didn't see that the NCAA's rules would require any changes. Some people may differ with that assessment.

In the highly anticipated rulings in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, the high court upheld state laws requiring student-athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Baker appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation" and was asked whether the NCAA will have to "tweak" its policy.
"I don’t think so. I mean, generally speaking, we try to establish policies from most of our programs that can hopefully have a national standard to it," Baker said. "I’ve said to folks, Democrats and Republicans in Washington after I got this job, that we needed some sort of clarity around on what the national standard for this would be and we adopted and complied with the standard that was put forth by the Trump administration.

That standard still falls a long way short of being decisive. And, as far as complying in every way with the Trump administration's thoughts on the matter, you can color me skeptical.

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Here's the relevant portion of the NCAA rules:

A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete for an NCAA women's team.
A student-athlete assigned male at birth may practice on an NCAA women's team and receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes. Division I leadership is planning to adopt roster limits in place of scholarship limits and new practice squad policies are still in development.

First of all, someone at the NCAA should read a high-school biology text and understand that sex, male or female, isn't assigned at birth. It's determined, genetically, at conception, and the differences between the sexes are present from that moment. This "assigned male/female" at birth is just woke horse squeeze with no basis in reality.

But that's not the big thing. It's the second paragraph that's concerning. It appears to disallow males from competing against females, but that's all. It does, unambiguously, allow males to practice on female teams, and to "receive all other benefits applicable to student athletes." What does that mean? Does that mean use of the facilities? That would appear, or could certainly be interpreted as, allowing boys and men to use the facilities intended for girls and women, including dressing rooms, locker rooms, and showers.

In this, the NCAA appears to be trying to split the baby, but as always is the case with these efforts, they fail. They dealt with one major problem: The issue of allowing males, with all their inherent physical advantages, to play on female teams in competition. But it doesn't preclude males from practicing with female teams, with all the physical risk that entails. And it doesn't specifically preclude boys and men from invading girls' and women's locker rooms and showers.

So, the NCAA doesn't think any policy change is required? They may wish to confirm that assessment with some of the girls and women who, when entering the girls' and women's locker rooms, were confronted with the last turkey in the shop.

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