Swim Poll of the Week: Will the NCAA change its requirements for participation by transgender athletes before March’s NCAA Championships?

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, January 13, 2022. Sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last swim poll, we wanted to know: Will the NCAA change its requirements for participation by transgender athletes before March’s NCAA Championships?

With the regular season coming to a close, a question on everyone’s mind is, where is the NCAA? Especially as Lia Thomas posts top swim times in the nation.

Parents of the University of Pennsylvania swim team have written to the school. The Ivy League has issued a statement in support of Thomas. The governing body of college athletics, however, has yet to make any comment on the situation at all.

Due to the governing body’s lack of communication during the regular season, it does seem highly unlikely that any sort of change will come before championship season in March. That is to say, nothing has been confirmed either way.

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Will the NCAA change its requirements for participation by transgender athletes before March’s NCAA Championships?

Yes — 37%

No — 62%

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Laurie

2 years ago

The NCAA are cowards. They believe in the falsehoods and non scientific gender ideology endorsed by transgenderism, the belief that humans can magically change sex just by changing their hormone level. Males can never become females, and females can never become males. Sports are divided by sex for fairness of competition. It is not fair nor logical to allow biological males to compete as females, and in the same logic females should not compete against males. The rules need to be based on fairness and scientific facts, not on the religious fallacy of transgenderism.

Tina B

2 years ago

The authors of the NCAA policy on trans inclusion totally disregarded the strength and size differences between males and females, and ignored *all* the science on this issue. Males retain an advantage even with testosterone suppression – this is found in multiple studies. The NCAA is a complete disgrace.