State AGs Call on NCAA to Restore Women’s Sports Records
In a powerful moment of legal unity, a coalition of 27 attorneys general issued a formal letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) calling on the body to restore records and honors to female athletes that were displaced by men competing in women’s sports.
The effort marks a pivotal moment in the cultural debate swirling around “LGBT” policy and a shift back to commonsense protections for female athletes.
The letter demands the NCAA reinstate “all championships, titles, wins, awards, records and other recognitions that were wrongfully awarded to male athletes competing in NCAA women’s category events.”
Signatories argue that the NCAA’s past policy, which allowed men to compete in women’s sports, undermined the purpose of Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.
The attorneys general (AGs) contend:
“There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged.”
The letter recognizes the significant policy change the NCAA made in February, limiting female sports to students “assigned female at birth only,” following an executive order to keep men out of female sports, and urges them to extend that policy to practice as well.
The AGs note a February letter from the U.S. Department of Education to the NCAA and its member institutions urging the organizations to “restore to female athletes all records, titles, awards, and recognitions wrongfully credited to male athletes.”
Over 500,000 college athletes are impacted by NCAA policies, and these AGs maintain that the NCAA has not done enough to repair the damage caused by their policies.
The AGs contend, “The NCAA should take this step for former athletes to preserve the integrity of Title IX and show your support for the women harmed by years of bad policy.”
Attorneys general of the following states signed on to the letter: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming.
To date, the NCAA has not issued a public response.
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