The Education Department, under President Trump, is proposing to right a historic wrong.
For some years now, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has, along with other sports governing bodies, allowed “transgender women” – that would be, men, cosplaying as women – to compete on women’s sports teams and be (unfairly) awarded titles, trophies and records that they did not and do not deserve. Now the Education Department is urging NCAA President Charlie Baker to rescind those records and titles. The Daily Caller has the story:
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The ED Office of General Counsel also sent a letter to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) demanding the same be done at the high school level where any biological men have won women’s titles. The letters, the ED writes, are in line with a recent executive order the president signed prohibiting biological men who identify as women from competing in women’s and girl’s sports across the country.’
“We cannot undo the damage inflicted by years of policies and practices that have denied the material reality of sex and conflated that immutable characteristic with a subjective, fluid concept of ‘identity’ by prospectively returning to objective, factual sex classifications in athletics,” Trump’s ED writes in its letter, obtained exclusively by the Caller.
“But we can recognize the harms done and injustices committed by such misguided policies and reversing their effects will restore a genuine commitment to girls’ and women’s equality of opportunity in athletic competition across the United States,” the letter says.
Writer Reagan Reese took to X to break the news and present the first page of the letter.
SCOOP: Trump’s Education Department is demanding @NCAA strip biological men, such as Lia Thomas, of the records and titles they won competing on women’s sports teams.
Doing such would be in line with Trump’s latest EO banning biological men from women’s sports, the letter… pic.twitter.com/2LbDJJ8gVy
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) February 11, 2025
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This practice – letting mediocre male athletes suddenly decide they “identify” as women and compete on women’s teams – is horribly unfair and never should have been allowed. Now, at least, the Trump administration is taking steps to reverse it.
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These men – it’s highly doubtful many of them genuinely suffer from gender dysphoria – did not earn these awards. They competed unfairly. Men, as I have written many times, have significant advantages in speed, strength, and stamina over women – and those advantages are even present before puberty.
These are facts. This is actual science: Measurable, verifiable, and reproducible.
President Trump has already signed an executive order barring federal funding for any educational institution that allows men to compete in women’s sports. This removal of awards that were not honestly earned is consistent with the administration’s position, not to mention reality.
Following Trump signing the executive order, the NCAA changed its policy to prohibit biological men from participating in women’s sports. Trump’s education department argues that restoring to women their athletic records held by biological men is “entirely consistent” with the NCAA’s new policy.
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To make sure this is signed, sealed, and delivered, Congress should also put in place a statutory solution barring federal support of any kind for any institution or organization that allows this. In the meantime, removing these undeserved awards and restoring them to the women who rightly won them is a necessary step.
