Advocates for transgender athletes say statements like those in the letter are “not doing anything to protect women’s sports, instead, they’re just creating more division in sports.”
Camila Pedrosa Cronkite News WASHINGTON — A group of former swimmers and divers from the University of Arizona wrote to the NCAA last week urging it to “protect our women athletes,” after a transgender woman won a national swimming title.
“As we began to reach out to one another, we realized we all shared very similar feelings and had some great ideas to offer to the NCAA. We decided that if the NCAA wasn’t going to ask women swimmers our opinion then we would offer it to them ourselves very powerfully,” the email said. “What that tells us is that she was and continues to be a really talented, hard-working athlete,” Hoffman said. “This is not a case of someone who was failing in men’s sports and so then decided to compete in women’s sports.”
“That discriminatory approach is what is going to be more likely to have a Title IX violation attached to it, because that is overt discrimination,” Gruberg said of the possibility that schools might reject transgender athletes. Gruberg, the vice president of the LGBTQI+ Research and Communications Project at CAP, said the issue of transgender men competing in men’s sports “seems to confuse some folks.” By framing the argument as “protecting women in sports,” the group demonstrates its lack of knowledge on transgender issues, she said.
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