Education Dept. urges NCAA to reverse transgender athletes' records, titles and awards
The Education department said records, titles, and awards were 'wrongfully credited to' transgender women, whom it referred to as 'biological men.
The Education Department on Tuesday urged organizations overseeing high school and college athletics to strip records, titles and awards from transgender women who competed in women’s sports.
The department sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) calling on them to “restore to female athletes the records, titles, awards, and recognitions misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories,” according to a news release from the department.
Candice Jackson, deputy general counsel for the Education Department, said women athletes
“have for years been devalued, ignored, and forced to watch men steal their accolades.”
“The Trump Education Department will do everything in our power to right this wrong and champion the hard-earned accomplishments of past, current, and future female collegiate athletes,” Jackson said in a statement.
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