24/04/2024
Urgent! Friends we need you to take action now! Thank you!
From: Nancy Hogshead
Date: April 24, 2024 at 4:05:24 PM PDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: LAST CHANCE: Tell NCAA Bd of Governors to Protect Women's Sports!
Reply-To: [email protected]
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Your Last Chance to Tell the NCAA: Women's Sports Are For Women!
https://championwomen.org/email-the-ncaa-board/
The NCAA's Board of Governors is meeting TOMORROW, THURSDAY to review the NCAA's policy on Men who identify as transgender, gender-fluid, non-binary, or any other identity, competing in "Women's" categories.
Over 700 of you have signed our petition so far, some with pognient remarks. NCAA Champions and Hall of Famers, Olympians and Paralympians, American and World Record Holders, athletes who scored a perfect "10", Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, feminists and gender critical activists, male & female transgender athletes, gay, straight, & le***an athletes, great-grand parents of NCAA athletes and future NCAA stars, military leaders, women from Power 4 schools & small DIII schools, women's coaches at all levels, from all over the country and the world!
- Some express compassion for someone who suffers from gender dysphoria, but that s*x is objective, real, and immutable. Some encourage participation by s*x and others advocate for additional sport categories, wanting everyone to have sports opportunities.
- They describe the unfairness of competing against the East Germans in the late 70s through the 90s, who were doping, and the sport administrators told them they'd be sent home for speaking up, for stand up fairness, for women athletes. They describe having a daughter who didn't qualify for the finals in the NCAA Championship because of Lia Thomas. They discribe the pride of wearing their "s*x certificaiton" around their necks with their credential, having been cheek-swabbed once. They describe hundreds of hours of hard hard work to be able to play sports in college, and their decades of work to elevate women's sports. And my goodness but they can cite the studies showing testosterone supression does not make someone a woman!
NCAA President Charlie Baker said he wants to hear from WOMEN ATHLETES - past, present or future - about YOUR sports experiences and the importance of our sport category, WOMEN's Sports and WOMEN's Spaces. We think it is imperative that all sports governing bodies respect our s*x. (!!)
Please Forward The Link To More Women Athletes
Need ideas? See:
Champion Women WSPWG position Biden Administration Title IX Amendments 4/7/23
Champion Women WSPWG position on Locker Rooms 1/24/23
The science of s*x and other resources HERE.
Champion Women and the Women's Sports Policy Working Group's White Papers
ICONS - See the lawsuit against the NCAA
ICONS' International Women's Sports Summit videos HERE.
Quotes:
Nancy Hogshead, J.D., Three-time Olympic Champion swimmer, Civil Rights Lawyer, CEO of Champion Women, providing legal advocacy for girls and women in sports, and founding member of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: “The NCAA must stop its policy of intentionally excluding the voice of female athletes from its policies governing a male’s ability to compete in women’s categories. Women’s sports were created, built, and defended by women, over many decades. NCAA, listen to women and listen to athletes; we want you to adopt policies that provide a level playing field for fair and safe sport. This includes requiring member schools comply with Title IX in athletics: equal opportunities, athletic scholarships, and equal treatment, strict drug testing, removing athletes and coaches with a history of s*xual abuse or violence, accurate weight categories, enforcing prohibitions on pregnancy discrimination & rules on fair sports equipment, and … separate s*x categories.”
(Hogshead was a keynote speaker for many years at NCAA conferences. For two years she served on the NCAA’s Gender Equity Taskforce. She was in the room when the NCAA’s policy on transgender inclusion was initially considered — where they were told that a male receiving female hormones would move laterally, from the men’s category to the women’s category. In other words, if a male identified as transgender were ranked 500th in the men’s category, a year of T-supression and estrogen would move that man to the 500th rank in the women’s category.
- "It was never true, and additional and overwhelming science proves that fact, glaringly so. Yet the NCAA did not change its policy when the science became clear, and instead doubled down on its faulty policy, giving trans-advocates a front-row seat at their policy table, including Jack Turban, MD. Now we’ve documented more than 578+ men who have taken athletic opportunities from girls and women, accelerating sharply in the past few years.")
Martina Navratilova, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, founding member of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: “I practiced and competed against men in mixed doubles during my decades on the professional tennis tour. But it didn’t take those experiences to convince me that our common sense is correct: men and women are built so differently that we require our own sport category, to win, to make money, and to create a legacy. I will fight for every girl to have the right to aspire to great accomplishments through sport, and I hope the NCAA will too.”
Donna de Varona, Olympic Champion, Swimming, 17-year President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, Emmy Award Winning Sports Broadcaster, founding member, Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: “I’ve heard people say that women’s sports advocates should focus on the enormous inequalities in women’s college athletic opportunities, scholarship dollars, and inferior treatment that are prohibited by Title IX, instead of the eligibility of males who identify as transgender. But those two causes are related. So are the NCAA’s inferior women’s Championship treatment and the NCAA’s refusal to prohibit s*xual predators from continuing to compete and coach in member institutions. They are all ways that the NCAA discriminates against women and fails to listen to their pleas. That’s why we’re asking the NCAA to please listen to women, current and former athletes, who believe in the educational mission of sport, the lifelong professional and health benefits that flow to women athletes. To do that, we need our own sports!”
Mariah Burton Nelson, former Stanford and professional basketball player, author, and columnist at Stronger Women, and member of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: I played basketball for Stanford and later in the pros in France and the U.S.. At Stanford I was the leading scorer and rebounder all four years, and one rebounding record was unbroken for 20 years. This experience shaped me, led to my being drafted by the New Jersey Gems of the WBL and also the best team in France, and launched my career as a writer specializing in the empowerment of women through sports. That positive experience would NOT have happened if a bigger, stronger man who identifies as transgender had played on my team or played against me on other teams. His size, strength, and maleness (regardless of his identity) would have distracted all of us, enraged many of us, and resulted in blocked shots, scoring and rebounding records, and other indignities because of his inherent athletic advantages. Everyone knows men are, on average, bigger and stronger. This is not mitigated via testosterone suppression.
NCAA, please do right by your female athletes. Do not let male athletes who ‘identify’ as women take precedence. They are not ‘banned’ from sport; they can play in the men's category, where they belong. Women's sports are for women.”
Tracy Sundlun, CEO, Everything Running, Inc., Founding Board Member, National Scholastic Athletics Foundation. Co-Founder and Director of the National Scholastic Indoor & Outdoor Track & Field Championships (1984 – Present), Co-Founder, Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, and founding member of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group: “Beginning in the late 1960s, I coached girls and women of all ages and abilities in all track and field events, including collegiately at Georgetown, the University of Southern California, and the University of Colorado, and in 6 Olympic Games. While every one of those hundreds of girls and women would probably say that they supported the right of males who identify as transgender to participate in and be welcomed into life and society, including sports, they would remark about men’s athletic abilities. They would say that males, however they identify, cannot do so in competitive sports at any level as their participation would come at the expense of biological females. Since the issue first raised its ugly head several years ago, a wealth of scientific evidence has shown that beginning in vitro, males have a physiological advantage over females. The science should guide the imperative for the NCAA to protect women’s categories for both competitive fairness and safety. Males who identify as transgender could have their own competitive category or compete in the men’s – a re-classified “open” category, so as not to take competitive opportunities from females. Please do right and join us in protecting the female sports category!”
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