Utah Attorney General Derek Brown joined with 27 other Republican attorneys general to demand NCAA President Charlie Baker strip transgender athletes of their achievements in women’s collegiate sports and erase their records from competition.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch led the charge in a letter condeming the Biden administration and the NCAA for implementing policies that allowed transgender women to compete in female athletic programs.
“There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged,” the letter reads.
“We urge the NCAA to develop a plan to restore all appropriate recognitions to the women athletes who were wrongfully denied all that they earned.”
The attorneys general praise the policy adopted by the NCAA in February that limits participation in women’s sports only to student athletes who were assigned female at birth. The policy shift came one day after President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender women and girls from playing in school sports, threatening to cut off federal funds to schools that don’t comply.
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“Since taking office in January, President Trump has made restoring fairness to women athletes a priority. While we appreciate the steps the NCAA has taken since then, there is far more the NCAA can do for the women athletes that have competed and continue to compete in your events,” the letter reads.
Attorney General Brown’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
