A National Sports Association BANS “Trans” Athletes, Affecting Over 240 Colleges

It’s about time!

A vote was taken by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Council of Presidents and the results were unanimous.

NAIA then announced that it’s putting an end to this trans nonsense by banning trans athletes.

This will affect around 240 colleges so women athletes at those campuses can let out a sigh of relief.

Seeing as how the NAIA is focused on smaller campuses and not as influential as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) it looks like it’s not under the thumb of the degenerate overlords that control the rest of society.

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— New York Post (@nypost) April 8, 2024

We’re finally seeing some common sense returning!

Reuters reports:

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics on Monday banned transgender women from competing in women’s sports, taking a more hardline stance than other athletic bodies that allow trans athletes to compete based on testosterone levels.

The NAIA, representing mostly small colleges, is less influential than the larger National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) but its decision carries some political weight in the wider U.S. debate about transgender rights.

“Only NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored female sports,” the association said in its policy.

Female athletes who have begun masculinizing hormone therapy may participate in internal workouts, practices and team activities but are banned from external competition. Any eligible athlete may participate in men’s sports, the policy said.

The vote by the association’s Council of Presidents was 20-0, ESPN reported.

Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBTQ rights, criticized the policy as a “cowardly decision that enables discrimination.”

The NAIA has 83,000 athletes at 250 schools while NCAA has more than 500,000 athletes at 1,100 member schools, according to their respective websites.

Athletes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will only be allowed to compete in women’s sports if they were assigned the female gender at birth, the national small-college organization announced Monday.

The NAIA’s Council of Presidents approved the policy in a 20-0 vote Monday morning after a December survey indicated widespread support for the move. The association’s previous policy only applied to postseason competition. The new directive applies to all NAIA competitions.

The NAIA is a national athletic governing body for 249 mostly small colleges across the country that are not part of the NCAA’s three divisions of competition. The membership is 80% private schools. This decision does not apply to NCAA competitions.

“We know there are a lot of different opinions out there,” NAIA president Jim Carr told CBS Sports. “For us, we believed our first responsibility was to create fairness and competition in the NAIA. … We also think it aligns with the reasons Title IX was created. You’re allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete.”

The complete policy, as released by NAIA on Monday:

Student-athletes may participate in NAIA competition in accordance with the following conditions:

A. Participation by students in sports designated as male by the NAIA:
All eligible NAIA student-athletes may participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports.

B. Participation by students in sports designated as female by the NAIA:
Only NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored female sports. They may participate under the following conditions:

1. A student who has not begun any masculinizing hormone therapy may participate without limitation.
2. A student who has begun masculinizing hormone therapy may participate in:

   a. All activities that are internal to the institution (does not include external competition), including workouts, practices, and team activities. Such participation is at the discretion of the NAIA member institution where the student is enrolled; and

   b. External competition that is not a countable contest as defined by the NAIA (per NAC Policy Article XXV, Section A, Item 12). Such participation is at the discretion of the NAIA member institution where the student is enrolled.