The NCAA has changed its participation policy for transgender athletes, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth. The change came on day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the issue.
<p>WASHINGTON — The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth only.
</p><p>The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/51245467/trump-signs-executive-order-intended-to-bar-transgender-athletes-from-girls-and-womens-sports" rel="follow" target="_blank">executive order</a> intended to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports. The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sport" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">order</a> gives federal agencies latitude to withhold federal funding from entities that do not abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration's view, which interprets "sex" as the gender someone was assigned at birth.</p><p>The NCAA policy change is effective immediately and applies to all athletes regardless of previous eligibility reviews. The NCAA has some 1,100 member schools with more than 500,000 athletes, the largest governing body for college athletics in the U.S.</p><p>"We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions," NCAA President Charlie Baker said. "
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