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The United States Department of Education is calling connected the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to portion the records and awards "misappropriated" by transgender athletes competing successful girls and women’s sports little than a week aft President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid efficaciously banning them from competition.
The connection follows a missive sent by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) to the NCAA and the NFHS connected Tuesday urging the enactment to "restore to pistillate athletes the records, titles, awards, and recognitions misappropriated by biologic males competing successful pistillate categories."
The connection went connected to telephone connected the organizations to portion immoderate accolades from those athletes that "unfairly competed against girls and women successful athletics," adding that doing truthful would align the groups with the caller policy.
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Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" bid connected Wednesday, which volition necessitate entities that person national backing to align with Title IX, which the Trump medication changed past week to admit protections connected the ground of biologic enactment — undoing erstwhile President Joe Biden's 2024 rewrite.
Surrounded by pistillate athletes, Trump declared astatine the signing ceremonial that "the warfare connected women’s sports is over."
In effect to the enforcement order, NCAA President Charlie Baker aboriginal released a connection stating that the Board of Governors would reappraisal the enforcement bid and instrumentality steps to align the organization’s argumentation successful the coming days.
"We powerfully judge that clear, accordant and azygous eligibility standards would champion service today's student-athletes alternatively of a patchwork of conflicting authorities laws and tribunal decisions. To that end, President Trump's bid provides a clear, nationalist standard," the connection read.
"The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the enforcement bid and volition instrumentality indispensable steps to align NCAA argumentation successful the coming days, taxable to further guidance from the administration. The Association volition proceed to assistance foster welcoming environments connected campuses for each student-athletes. We basal acceptable to assistance schools arsenic they look for ways to enactment immoderate student-athletes affected by changes successful the policy."
The pursuing time the NCAA officially updated its sex eligibility argumentation that "limits contention successful women's sports to student-athletes assigned pistillate astatine commencement only."
Candice Jackson, Deputy General Counsel, said successful a connection Tuesday that the NCAA’s determination to alteration its argumentation was lone the archetypal step.
"The adjacent indispensable measurement is to reconstruct diversion records to women who person for years been devalued, ignored, and forced to ticker men bargain their accolades. The Trump Education Department volition bash everything successful our powerfulness to close this incorrect and champion the hard-earned accomplishments of past, current, and aboriginal pistillate collegiate athletes."
The enforcement bid has been met with pushback.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it volition proceed to travel the state's instrumentality that allows athletes to enactment arsenic whichever sex they place as, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital past week.
The Education department’s latest plea is besides expected to beryllium met with akin rebuffs.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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