That takes care of moving ahead, but will the NCAA correct its gender record from Joe Biden’s years in office?
The Trump Administration is urging the NCAA to strip women's titles and awards from biological men who competed against real women.
This includes names like Will Thomas, also known as Lia, the male swimmer (shown below right) who competed against Riley Gaines. Gaines has since become a national voice fighting to keep men out of women’s sports and designated spaces.
Trump's Department of Education is demanding the NCAA make this happen, but it's not just at the collegiate level.
The Department's also sent a letter to the National Federation of State High School Associations, the NFHS.
It's demanding high schools across the U.S. do the same thing, according to The Daily Caller. Awards and titles would be stripped from all men who've competed against women.
Kim Jones is the co-founder of ICONS, the Independent Council on Women's Sports. She couldn't say enough good about this in an interview with AFN.
"I'm 100% behind the Department of Education's letter. I am grateful to them for pointing out that there are glaring loopholes in the NCAA policy, and they need to go back to the drawing board to redo that. I'm also 100% behind their efforts to give women the recognition that they deserve and to strip the record boards of all records … that should be ineligible and handed back to women."
The Trump administration’s letters are in line with a recent executive order the president signed prohibiting men from competing on women's sports teams.
Jones said in effect that the Trump admin is showing it means business. We are waiting now to see if the NCAA and NFHS will comply with the letters.
"I'm just excited to see that the executive order was as solid as it is. It’s really, really wonderful to see the clarity of understanding and to know that this administration is trying to hold-- not trying to, is going to hold governing bodies' feet to the fire and get this done right."
