NCAA chief: No plan to change rules on transgender athletes after SCOTUS ruling

NCAA President Charlie Baker does not judge the enactment volition request to alteration its rules connected transgender athletes successful airy of a Supreme Court ruling earlier this week that allowed states to prohibition their information successful schoolhouse sports.

"I had said to folks, Democrats and Republicans successful Washington, aft I got this job, that we needed immoderate benignant of clarity astir what the nationalist modular for this would be, and we adopted and comply with the modular that was enactment distant by the Trump administration," Baker told CBS News elder White House and governmental analogous Ed O'Keefe. "I deliberation what happens astatine the authorities level is simply a antithetic question."

Just implicit 2 weeks aft returning to bureau past year, President Trump signed an executive order seeking to prohibition transgender women and girls from women's sports, taking connected a contentious contented spotlighted by his 2024 campaign. 

The pursuing day, the NCAA's committee voted to align its policy with the president's order, deciding women's teams would not beryllium unfastened to athletes who were recorded arsenic antheral astatine commencement oregon taking testosterone therapy. There are nary restrictions for information connected men's teams.

Outside the NCAA, policies alteration widely. Many states person enacted bans connected transgender information successful girls' and women's sports, but others let their participation. This week, the Supreme Court ruled states tin walk bans, uncovering policies that basal eligibility connected biologic enactment bash not interruption the Constitution oregon the landmark sex favoritism instrumentality Title IX.

In an interrogation acceptable to aerial Sunday connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Baker told CBS News that careless of immoderate disputes implicit authorities law, "our nationalist modular is going to beryllium what we expect our schools to usage with respect to eligibility issues for assemblage sports."

"But obviously, antithetic states volition person antithetic standards astir however to woody with precocious schoolhouse and younker sports," the NCAA person and erstwhile Massachusetts politician continued.

Very fewer collegiate athletes are openly transgender — Baker testified to Congress successful precocious 2024 that helium was alert of less than 10. But the contented has drawn aggravated scrutiny successful caller years, driven successful portion by immoderate high-profile transgender athletes. Supporters of bans reason they guarantee just competition, portion opponents reason they could unnecessarily exclude people.

Baker said successful his view, "the astir important happening astir it is to person a wide argumentation and to person 1 that is accordant with national policy, due to the fact that that eliminates … each the grey with respect to however this should beryllium dealt with."