{"id":746531,"date":"2026-07-06T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:45:09","slug":"ncaa-president-expects-no-changes-to-trans-athlete-rules-after-us-supreme-court-ruling-us-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746531\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA president expects no changes to trans athlete rules after US supreme court ruling | US supreme court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president of the US\u2019s top administrator of collegiate sports on Sunday said his organization does not anticipate adjusting its rules on transgender athletes after a recent federal supreme court decision<\/a> allowed states to ban them from participating in school athletics.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with CBS News\u2019 Face the Nation, Charlie Baker, the NCAA<\/a> president, alluded to how his organization in late January 2025 had effectively banned<\/a> transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports by closing off those programs to athletes who were assigned male at birth or were taking testosterone therapy. There are no restrictions for participation in NCAA men\u2019s sports, which Baker referred to on Sunday as \u201cthe open network\u201d.<\/p>\n

Baker recounted how the NCAA implemented that ban on trans athletes in women\u2019s sports in response to an executive order signed<\/a> by Donald Trump<\/a> early in his second term.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed some sort of clarity around what the national standard for this would be \u2013 and we adopted and comply with the standard that was put forth by the administration,\u201d Baker, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, told Ed O\u2019Keefe, a CBS senior political correspondent. \u201cI think what happens at the state level is a different question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker\u2019s remarks seemingly nodded to how it is expected to have far-reaching consequences for the supreme court to have decided<\/a> on 30 June to uphold laws in conservative West Virginia and Idaho excluding transgender girls and women from competing in female sports.<\/p>\n

Many female sports \u2013 including the collegiate, high school and lower levels \u2013 are governed by organizations that are not the NCAA<\/a>. The prohibitions in Idaho and West Virginia furthermore were already replicated in at least 25 other states.<\/p>\n

A protester holds a sign at the Stonewall monument in Manhattan, New York, on 30 June in response to the ruling by the supreme court upholding bans on trans athletes in several states. Photograph: Neil Constantine\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

And those states are likely to perceive the US supreme court\u2019s 6-3 decision<\/a> \u2013 from which the liberal justices dissented \u2013 as a green-light for their bans, though it remained unclear how it could affect ongoing litigation challenging laws in other places, such as California and Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The supreme court majority\u2019s ruling essentially said that banning trans women and girls from competing<\/a> in female sports does not run afoul of Title IX, a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination in education.<\/p>\n

It overturned prior judgments issued by lower courts from two trans students \u2013 one in college and the other in high school \u2013 who had sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and Idaho. And the ruling also represented a substantial victory for Trump, who clinched a second term in the Oval Office in the 2024 election by campaigning in part on what he characterized as an issue of \u201cmen in women\u2019s sports\u201d.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe on Sunday referred to Baker\u2019s having told<\/a> Congress in 2024 that he was aware of only 10 trans athletes out of more than 500,000 student athletes attending NCAA schools.<\/p>\n

The issue received widespread attention among conservative circles in part because of Riley Gaines<\/a>, a former collegiate swimmer turned anti-trans activist.<\/p>\n

Before becoming a prominent rightwing media figure<\/a>, Gaines tied for fifth place with the trans swimmer Lia Thomas<\/a> at their sport\u2019s 2022 NCAA championships.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe asked Baker to rank where \u201cthis issue\u201d fell with respect to \u201cthe critical ones facing\u201d the NCAA.<\/p>\n

Baker replied: \u201cI can tell you that having talked to people on both sides of this issue \u2013 to those who are involved in it, it matters a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe then asked Baker if inclusivity is an NCAA priority \u2013 and if its policy makes the organization inclusive enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I do,\u201d Baker said. \u201cI don\u2019t have a problem \u2026 with the way that policy currently operates. And frankly, I don\u2019t think many of our schools do either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president of the US\u2019s top administrator of collegiate sports on Sunday said his organization does not anticipate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-746531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}