Click here to send your email to urge the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Board of Governors to correct its error by changing policy to require that naturally born males only compete athletically as males and naturally born females compete athletically only as females and to preserve legitimate female swimming records by reclassifying trans sports records out of the male and female athletic sports categories.
Lia Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania man trying to be a woman, will compete at the NCAA national swimming championship March 16 to 19 in the 100-, 200-, and 500-yard freestyle events. According to the pre-selection time sheets, Taylor holds the nation’s best times in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle, giving her the top seed in those events.
Thomas has come under even more scrutiny as his maleness may make it possible for him to break NCAA national female swimming records. Lia Thomas came out publicly to respond to criticism on March 4, 2022 by saying “I am not a man. I am a woman.”
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) policy allows males who undergo testosterone suppression to compete athletically as females. However, studies show that testosterone suppression does NOT make a level playing field for men to compete against women.
Policy allowing males to compete athletically as females based on testosterone suppression does not change men into women nor make men physically equal to women.
The National Institute of Health reports: The muscular advantage enjoyed by transgender women is only minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed. We report that the performance gap between males and females becomes significant at puberty and often amounts to 10-50% depending on sport. The performance gap is more pronounced in sporting activities relying on muscle mass and explosive strength, particularly in the upper body. Longitudinal studies examining the effects of testosterone suppression on muscle mass and strength in transgender women consistently show very modest changes, where the loss of lean body mass, muscle area and strength typically amounts to approximately 5% after 12 months of treatment. Thus, the muscular advantage enjoyed by transgender women is only minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed. Sports organizations should consider this evidence when reassessing current policies regarding participation of transgender women in the female category of sport.
The Guardian reports: Trans women retain 12% edge in tests two years after transitioning, study finds. The article states in part:
A groundbreaking new study on transgender athletes has found trans women retain a 12% advantage in running tests even after taking hormones for two years to suppress their testosterone. The results, researchers suggest, indicate the current International Olympic Committee guidelines may give trans women an “unfair competitive advantage” over biological women.
The research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that before starting their hormone treatment trans women performed 31% more push-ups and 15% more sit-ups in one minute on average than a biological women younger than 30 in the air force – and ran 1.5 miles 21% faster.
Yet after suppressing their testosterone for two years – a year longer than IOC guidelines – they were still 12% faster on average than biological females.
The trans women also retained a 10% advantage in push-ups and a 6% advantage in sit-ups for the first two years after taking hormones, before their advantage disappeared. But the researchers say they “may underestimate the advantage in strength that trans women have over cis women … because trans women will have a higher power output than cis women when performing an equivalent number of push-ups”.
Male athletes pretending to be females are demoralizing girls and ruining women’s sports. Woke leftists demand that a made up, unnatural, unscientific identity that allegedly makes up .58 percent of the population should be allowed to destroy decades of sports competition by real women who make up 50.52 percent of the population. This unfairness is grossly disproportional against women. Testosterone suppression simply cannot restore fairness and safety by having men compete against women.
The leaders of our colleges are failing women, failing science, failing history and failing the truth by letting men compete athletically against women as Lia Thomas threatens to capture national swimming records.
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Click here to send your email to urge the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Board of Governors to correct its error by changing policy to require that naturally born males only compete athletically as males and naturally born females compete athletically only as females and to preserve legitimate female swimming records by reclassifying trans sports records out of the male and female athletic sports categories.
Contact information:
The NCAA Board of Governors is the highest governing body in the NCAA. Bringing together presidents and chancellors from each division along with select leaders from inside and outside the NCAA membership, the board is responsible for leading the NCAA and presiding over issues that effect the entire NCAA membership.
The Board of Governors consists of 21 voting members and four ex officio nonvoting members.
John DeGioia
President of Georgetown University,
Committee Chair.
president@georgetown.edu
Rebecca Blank
Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin,
Committee Member.
rebecca.blank@wisc.edu
chancellor@wisc.edu
Ken Chenault
General Catalyst,
Committee Member
kchenault@generalcatalyst.com
Mary Sue Coleman
Former President AAU,
Committee Member (Independent).
No email located
Philip DiStefano
Chancellor of the University of Colorado Boulder,
Committee Member.
philip.distefano@colorado.edu
Chancellor@colorado.edu
Steven Shirley
President of Minot State University,
Committee Member.
steven.shirley@minotstateu.edu
Robert Gates
Fmr. US Secretary of Defense
Committee Member
No email located
James Harris
President of the University of San Diego,
Committee Member.
jharris@sandiego.edu
Grant Hill
Atlanta Hawks,
Committee Member
grant@granthill.com
gh@granthill.com
Renu Khator
President of the University of Houston,
Committee Member.
rkhator@uh.edu BLOCKED
Fayneese Miller
President of Hamline University,
Committee Member.
president@hamline.edu BOUNCED
Jere Morehead
President of the University of Georgia,
Committee Member.
president@uga.edu
Denise Trauth
President of Texas State University,
Committee Member.
president@txstate.edu
Satish Tripathi
President of University at Buffalo,
Committee Member.
bethdel@buffalo.edu
David Wilson
President of Morgan State University,
Committee Member.
david.wilson@morgan.edu
Randy Woodson
Chancellor of North Carolina State University,
Committee Member.
chancellor@ncsu.edu
Mark Emmert
President NCAA
Ex officio Member.
memmert@ncaa.org
NCAA Media Coordination and Statistics
Director - David Worlock (317-917-6120)
dworlock@ncaa.org
Jason Fein
Athletics Director at Bates College,
Ex officio Member.
jfein@bates.edu
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