CV NEWS FEED // The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced Monday that it adopted a new policy to prevent men from competing in its sanctioned women’s sports competitions.
The NAIA encompasses 241 member colleges and universities, all of which will be subject to the policy.
“Only NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored female sports,” the policy states.
On the other hand, it allows female athletes to compete in men’s sports competitions: “All eligible NAIA student-athletes may participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports.”
NAIA president Jim Carr defended the policy, stating, “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,” Carr added. “You’re allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete.”
FOX News noted that the policy will go into effect on August 1 – in time for the 2024-25 school year.
The San Joaquin Valley Sun reported that the “NAIA Council of Presidents approved the policy in a 20-0 vote.”
The Sun also noted that the policy will not apply to competitions sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which is a separate organization from the NAIA.
The NCAA houses over 1,000 member schools, and continues to let men compete in its sanctions women’s competitions.
“Take note [NCAA],” former collegiate swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the NAIA announced its new policy.
Last month, Gaines and 15 other female college athletes announced a lawsuit against the NCAA.
CatholicVote reported at the time:
The lawsuit alleges that the NCAA “imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women’s teams.”
It further states that the governing body of college sports is “destroying female safe spaces in women’s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women.”
The NCAA’s “transgender” policy “creat[es] situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy,” the lawsuit argues
>> RILEY GAINES, OTHER FEMALE ATHLETES SUE NCAA OVER ‘TRANS’ <<
Gaines said of her NCAA lawsuit: “It is time that we fight back.”
Source: College Sports Association Bars Men From Women’s Competitions
