The NCAA’s new policy for transgender athletes lacks clarity and could be difficult to enforce, advocates on both sides of the issue say.
“This update complicates the NCAA policy in a way that I don’t believe they are equipped to handle,” he told ESPN, adding that many national governing bodies have not created policies for trans athletes and that policies vary between sport national governing bodies, meaning “tracking compliance is going to be a nightmare for the NCAA.
As a record number of anti-trans bills were considered in state legislatures, Thomas began her season at Penn. She declined an interview, but told thepodcast that she had been on testosterone suppression treatment for more than 2 ½ years by the time she began competing on the women’s team in November.
Some former athletes say that, though the policy is unclear, it’s a positive change. Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an Olympic champion in swimming and founder of Champion Women, a nonprofit group that provides legal advocacy for girls and women in sports, said the new policy shows that the NCAA is “open to having new changes based on science that has come up,” but that it’s discouraging that it said it’s prioritizing fairness, safety and inclusion equally.
That stance is extreme to some. Though some transgender women do likely maintain an advantage over cisgender women even after transition, that isn’t a reason to prohibit them from competing entirely, said Joanna Harper, a trans runner and a visiting fellow for transgender athletic performance at England’s Loughborough University who published the first performance analysis of transgender athletes in 2015.
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