The regents who govern Georgia’s public universities and colleges want the NCAA to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports. The unanimous vote came after Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones vowed in August to pass legislation banning transgender women from athletic events at public colleges.
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All athletes are allowed to participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports. But the only athletes allowed to participate in women’s sports are those whose biological sex assigned at birth is female and have not begun hormone therapy.College sports ‘fraternity’ jumping in to help athletes from schools impacted by Hurricane HeleneThe much larger NCAA began in August to follow the standards of national and international governing bodies for each sport.
“Those are three very different sets of rules that our institutions’ athletic programs are governed by at this point,” said McGraw, also the board’s chief lawyer, who briefly presented the resolution before it was approved with no debate. Kristina Torres, a spokesperson, said board members and Chancellor Sonny Perdue had no further comment. Perdue is a former Republican governor while board members have been appointed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
“I’m certainly disappointed to see the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia is spending its time passing resolutions that only serve to stigmatize transgender students and perpetuate misinformation about the reality of what is happening within athletic competitions involving transgender athletes,” Graham told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
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