Female athletes are taking a stand against the NCAA.
Sixteen female college athletes who compete in sports such as swimming, track, and soccer are suing the NCAA over its transgender athlete policy. The athletes claim that the NCAA allowing men to compete in women’s sports violates Title IX, which bars discrimination based on anatomical sex at schools that receive federal funding.
These women deserve immense praise for taking a courageous stand. The NCAA should prevent men from competing in women’s sports, but it’s hard to imagine the athletic body willingly changing its policy due to its inept president.
NCAA President Charlie Baker is the former governor of Massachusetts, and, despite being a Republican, Baker is a committed adherent of the transgender ideology.
Baker told CNN in March 2023 that he supports men competing in women’s sports.
“You don’t want transgender athletes to have to play by different sets of rules at every step along the way in the process,” Baker told CNN. “Do there need to be rules? Do they have to meet clinical standards to participate? Yes, they should have to meet clinical standards, and those should be based on science.”
Biology, a form of science, tells us that men and women are physically different, but Baker likes to ignore that science.
As governor, he also embraced “woke” gender ideology. He signed a transgender bathroom and locker room access bill into law in 2016 and opposed the unsuccessful attempt by conservatives to repeal the law at the ballot box in 2018.
Under Baker, the state also made various administrative changes reflecting transgender ideology.
For example, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles began issuing “gender X” driver’s licenses despite no state law requiring the entity to do it.
Additionally, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education began reporting the number of self-identified nonbinary students in school districts, starting with the 2019-2020 school year; it’s a third gender category, alongside male and female.
Plus, with Baker as governor, many state documents referred to mothers and fathers as parent 1 and parent 2 — because not everyone with children identifies as a mother or a father.
It wasn’t merely Baker and his administration doing what they needed to do to win elections in Massachusetts. They went out of their way to govern as left-liberals to the point where Baker drew a formidable GOP primary challenger, which contributed to him not seeking a third term in 2022.
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Baker is an out-of-touch plutocrat who believes in social liberalism. He could take a strong stand against men in women’s sports, just like his administration could have not issued “gender X” driver’s licenses, but this is what he supports.
Whatever happens in the case these female athletes filed, at least some people are fighting to protect women’s sports — unlike the NCAA president.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.