The National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics Introduces Fairness In Women's Sports By Implementing New Transgender Policy.

Is it right that athletes who identify as male on a biological basis can play women's sports? Many argue that it's plainly unjust and shouldn't be permitted, while others—mostly progressives—assert that denying transgender people the opportunity to do anything they want is a violation of their rights.

According to Harrington Shaw's story in today's Martin Centre, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has drafted reasonable regulations to address this issue.

It stated: “In April of 2024, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) unanimously passed a new transgender policy, which states that only ‘student-athletes whose biological sex is female’ may participate in women’s sports. Additionally, athletes whose biological sex is female, but who have ‘begun masculinizing hormone therapy,’ are ineligible for intercollegiate competition. On the other hand, all eligible NAIA athletes may participate in men’s sports, regardless of their biological sex.”

Not the large NCAA schools, but smaller ones are the NAIA schools.

Shaw thinks that fostering the leftist fixation with "inclusion" is less crucial than making sure that competition is fair. He may be correct, in my opinion.

He finished with, “The NAIA’s transgender policy provides a promising framework for protecting fair competition in women’s sports while steering clear of the ideological fervor surrounding transgender issues in our current politics.”