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EXCLUSIVE: Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Competitors in Sports | The Free Press

By Thomas A. Smith

Over a dozen female athletes are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association for letting transgender athletes compete against them and use female locker rooms in college sports.

At the center of the class-action lawsuit is Lia Thomas, the trans athlete who dominated the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. The suit states that both the NCAA and Georgia Tech, which hosted the event, knowingly violated Title IX, the federal statute that guarantees equal opportunity for men and women in college education and sports.

The lawsuit, the first federal action of its kind, seeks to change the rules, rendering any biological males ineligible to compete against female athletes. It demands the NCAA revoke all awards given to trans athletes in women s competitions and reassign them to their female contenders. It also asks for damages for pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expense costs and other damages due to defendants wrongful conduct.  

via www.thefp.com

The NCAA from what I have observed is a blight upon college and university sports. I don’t know what if anything should be put in its place, but the NCAA should be abolished IMHO. But before it is, it should pay for the harm it has done.