{"id":14191,"date":"2024-03-15T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/16-female-athletes-sue-ncaa-over-trans-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:46:27","slug":"16-female-athletes-sue-ncaa-over-trans-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/16-female-athletes-sue-ncaa-over-trans-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Female Athletes Sue NCAA over Trans Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.swncdn.com\/via\/images\/2022\/06\/20\/26028-woman-swimmer-gettyimages-solisimages_source_file.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines and a coalition of 15 other current and former college athletes sued the NCAA in federal court Thursday, alleging the body violated their Title IX and constitutional rights when it allowed a biological male to compete in and win a 2022 race during the NCAA Swimming Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark lawsuit, filed in Georgia where the 2022 competition took place, alleges that the NCAA and the University System of Georgia \u201chave engaged in a continuing pattern and practice of discrimination against women in violation of Title IX\u201d by \u201cimplementing policies which allow males who identify as transgender to access female locker rooms and take the places of women on women\u2019s teams.\u201d Title IX is a 1972 law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2022, Penn\u2019s Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA championship with a dominant performance in the women\u2019s 500-yard freestyle. Thomas previously swam for Penn as a man.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconswomen.com\/take-on-the-ncaa\/\">lawsuit<\/a> requests an injunction preventing the NCAA and the University System of Georgia from enforcing the transgender policy. It alleges the NCAA violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution\u2019s Fourteenth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Council on Women\u2019s Sports (ICONS) is backing the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lawsuit against the NCAA isn\u2019t just about competition; it\u2019s a fight for the very essence of women\u2019s sports,\u201d said ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith, a collegiate All-American and NCAA national champion swimmer. \u201cWe\u2019re standing up for justice and the rights of female athletes to compete on a level playing field. It\u2019s about preserving the legacy of Title IX and ensuring that the future of women\u2019s sports is as bright as its past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit says the 16 athletes are suing the NCAA to \u201csecure for future generations of women the promise of Title IX that is being denied them and other college women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NCAA and its members are not above the law and must comply with it,\u201d the suit says. \u201c&#8230; The NCAA has simultaneously 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\u2019s teams, and destroying female safe spaces in women\u2019s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women and creating 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA violated Title IX by \u201cpurposefully adopting and amending policies and taking multiple actions specifically intended\u201d to allow Thomas to compete, the suit says.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve of the athletes in the lawsuit are swimmers. The suit also includes female athletes in soccer, track, volleyball and tennis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: \u00a9Getty Images\/SolisImage<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press,\u00a0<\/em><em>Christianity Today<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>The Christian Po<\/em>st<em>, <\/em>the<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Leaf-Chronicle<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> and<em>\u00a0<\/em>the <em>Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        setTimeout(function () {\n            !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function () {\n                    n.callMethod ?\n                        n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                }; if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                n.push = n; n.loaded = !0; n.version = '2.0'; n.queue = []; t = b.createElement(e); t.async = !0;\n                t.src = v; s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n            }(window,\n                document, 'script', '\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('dataProcessingOptions', ['LDU'], 0, 0);\n            fbq('init', '228399734010278');\n            fbq('track', \"PageView\");\n            fbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n        }, 3000);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/contributors\/michael-foust\/16-female-athletes-sue-ncaa-trans-policy.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Gaines and a coalition of 15 other current and former college athletes sued the NCAA in federal court Thursday, alleging the body violated their Title IX and constitutional rights when it allowed a biological male to compete in and win a 2022 race during the NCAA Swimming Championships. 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