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Women\u2019s Sports Policy Working Group (WSPWG) Endorses American Swimming Coaches Association\u2019s (ASCA) Position and Encourages NCAA to Revise Its Transgender Guidelines\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Swimming World is publishing the following letter submitted by the WSPWG to the NCAA Board of Governors.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Women’s Sports Policy Working Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0endorses the <\/span>American Swimming Coaches <\/strong>Association\u2019s<\/strong><\/span><\/a> position, urging the NCAA to update its Transgender Eligibility Guidelines.\u00a0 These guidelines, adopted in 2011, should ensure that the eligibility rules are evidence-based and do not undermine the fairness, equality, and safety goals that justify separate sex competition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast with the NCAA\u2019s prior process that was closed to stakeholders, the NCAA must involve female athletes who are not transgender, their coaches, and scientific experts in sex differences in human performance alongside transgender athletes and their advocates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The WSPWG believes that all transgender women, including Lia Thomas<\/strong>, should compete head-to-head in women\u2019s events, if they can demonstrate that they\u2019ve rolled back the sport advantages that result from male puberty, and are no longer benefitting from the structural and physiological effects of <\/span>circulating testosterone <\/span><\/a>outside of the female range.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the table below and <\/span>preliminary scientific analysis <\/span><\/a>demonstrates, Lia is overperforming in women\u2019s events. Her post-transition times to date \u2013 especially in the 200 yd and 500 yd freestyle\u00a0 \u2013 remain too close to her pre-transition bests in men\u2019s events relative to the performance gap between male and female athletes in Ivy League and NCAA D-1 competition. Based on NCAA\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

historical performance data and what we know about the effects of testosterone suppression,\u00a0 these differences are unlikely to be the result of normal development over time, including male-typical training gains in the collegiate cycle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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EVENT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

LT PRE-Transition <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201918-\u201919 <\/span>Personal Best<\/span> Time & Ranking <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Men\u2019s Events<\/span><\/td>\n

LT POST-Transition <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201921-\u201922 <\/span>To Date<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Time & Ranking <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in Women\u2019s Events<\/span> (as of 1-17-2022)<\/span><\/td>\n

% Gap\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

LT Pre- & Post\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Transition<\/span><\/td>\n

% Gap <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NCAA DI \u201cA\u201d <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Qualifying<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Standard<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Male <\/span>to Female<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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200 yd Free\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

1:39.31\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 462 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

1:41.93\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 1 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

2.64%\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n11.87%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
500 yd Free\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n4:18.72\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 65 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

4:34.06\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 2 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

5.93%\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\n

9.14%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1650 yd Free\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n14:54.76\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 32 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

15:59.71\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

# 6 in the nation<\/span><\/td>\n

7.26%\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\n

8.78%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Had testosterone suppression worked to roll back Lia\u2019s male sex-linked advantages, we would have expected to see the gap between her performances in men\u2019s and women\u2019s events grow at least to approximate the gap between males and females generally. Because it did not, Lia has gone from being a strong but not exceptional performer in D-1 men\u2019s events to being a national contender in D-1 women\u2019s events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, consistent with the data on the performance gaps across the distances swum, and the scientific evidence on the differential effects of testosterone suppression on endurance versus explosive power, Lia\u2019s times in endurance events have dropped more significantly than her times in the sprints, and she is a much better sprinter post-transition than she was pre-transition.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have no reason to doubt Lia\u2019s word and her institution\u2019s representation that she is eligible\u00a0 for team membership under the NCAA\u2019s current rules, which require transgender women first to\u00a0 complete at least \u201c<\/span>one-year of testosterone suppression treatment<\/span><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, that standard was based on the hypothesis that one year of testosterone suppression would be sufficient to roll back a transgender woman\u2019s male sex-linked performance advantages,\u00a0 or that waiting longer wouldn\u2019t diminish those advantages further enough to justify holding an athlete out beyond that point. According to the hypothesis underlying the NCAA\u2019s rule, rolling back male performance advantages should close the performance gap and result in an included athlete at least more-or-less returning to her place in the ranked hierarchy. For example, taking into account possible changes in an athlete\u2019s ranking overtime \u2013 changes that could come from normal development, training gains, injury, and other life circumstances \u2013 if she had been ranked around 5<\/span>th <\/span>in the nation as a male competing in the men\u2019s division, one would expect she should be ranked around 5<\/span>th <\/span>in the league or in the nation in the women\u2019s division after a year of testosterone suppression.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These assumptions are what made the NCAA\u2019s inclusion standard presumptively fair to individual female athletes and protective of the female category in general. They were to have ensured that a transgender athlete\u2019s performance in women\u2019s events wasn\u2019t boosted by ongoing or residual male sex-linked advantages and that moving from the men\u2019s to the women\u2019s division didn\u2019t materially change how good an athlete is relative to her competitors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The WSPWG assumes that in adopting its rule, the NCAA did not intend to sacrifice fairness to female athletes and the integrity of women\u2019s sports by including transgender women whose physical transition was clearly insufficient.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The WSPWG has consistently supported the NCAA\u2019s efforts to include transgender women in female events who have mitigated their male sex-linked performance advantages. It has also consistently supported the NCAA\u2019s efforts to align its rules with those that apply in post-collegiate competition. Harmonization is important to ensure that American athletes can move successfully across the collegiate, Olympic, and professional sports systems. But new scientific evidence and results like Lia Thomas\u2019s demonstrate that these rules need to be updated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Going forward, the WSPWG encourages the NCAA to develop a transparent, representative process to ensure that its transgender eligibility rules are evidence-based and don\u2019t undermine the fairness, equality, and safety goals that justify the women\u2019s category. To these ends, we recommend specific attention to the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Consultation with recognized experts in sex differences in human performance, physiology,\u00a0 cardiology, and endocrinology.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Consideration of the differential effects of testosterone suppression depending on the age at which treatment is begun, and on different sports and events.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Consideration of the details of the suppression requirement. To date, to our knowledge, the rule does not specify that transgender women must suppress their testosterone levels into the female range, nor does it require that they keep their levels within that range throughout athlete\u2019s competitive collegiate career. These conditions are necessary if mitigation is possibly to be effective. They are also necessary if the mitigation requirement is to be fair. A system that,\u00a0 under its eligibility rules, allows a transgender woman to tailor her testosterone levels according to her personal preferences but then, under its anti-doping rules, prohibits female athletes from doing the same, is not fair. The NCAA should align the doping and transgender eligibility rules,\u00a0 and clarify the details of the suppression requirement accordingly, so that transgender athletes do not have the advantages the anti-doping rules properly prohibit to female athletes, and so that the outcome of female competitions isn\u2019t determined by the traits the category was designed to exclude.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Adoption of a monitoring protocol to ensure compliance with the testosterone suppression requirement. The NCAA should rely on the necessary certifications concerning timing, levels, and consistency, reported by the athlete\u2019s treating endocrinologist to ensure monitoring is not unnecessarily intrusive.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Respectful accommodations for transgender athletes who have been included on teams but are periodically ineligible. Accommodations might include offsets, e.g., an extra exhibition lane, separate scoring and events, or team or individual handicaps, depending on the sport and event. Accommodations should be developed by experts in the affected sports and events.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Women\u2019s sports are separate from men\u2019s because of the physical, sex-linked differences between males as a group and females as a group. There is no alternative, defensible, non-sex linked rationale for separate sex sport. Recognizing, respecting, and accommodating categorical sex-linked differences ensures that sport meets its social justice obligations to both female <\/span>and<\/span> transgender athletes, enables fair and safe competitive sport, and secures the integrity and viability of female sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    The consideration of these comments by the NCAA Board of Governors is appreciated. <\/span><\/p>\n

    – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n

    WOMEN’S SPORTS POLICY WORKING GROUP (WSPWG)<\/b><\/p>\n

    Donna de Varona, OLY. <\/b>Two-time Olympian and double gold medalist in swimming. In 1965, UPI and AP\u00a0 voted her outstanding woman athlete in the world after she set 18 world records and fastest times. She was a sports broadcasting pioneer, the youngest and one of the first women to work in the industry. An\u00a0 Emmy recipient, she used her visibility to advise and advocate for the protection and promotion of Title\u00a0 IX and the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. As the first President and Chair of the Board of the Women\u2019s Sports Foundation, she helped build the organization into a sustainable, influential entity. She has served on five presidential commissions and is a member of the Seneca Falls Women’s Hall of\u00a0 Fame. Currently, she is a member of the International Olympic Committee Communications Commission, and was recently voted onto the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Board of Directors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Martina Navratilova, OLY. <\/b>Former professional tennis player and coach. In 2005, <\/span>Tennis <\/span><\/i>magazine selected Navratilova the greatest female tennis player for the years 1975 – 2005. She is considered one of the best female tennis players of all time. Over her career, she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand\u00a0 Slam women’s doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, marking the Open Era record for the most Grand Slam titles won by one player,\u00a0 male or female. Coached later in her career by the first trans-woman tennis player, Ren\u00e9e Richards, and long active in LGBTQ rights work and with the women’s tennis tour, Navratilova is particularly well-positioned to contribute to thoughtful policy on the inclusion of trans women\/girls in women’s sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Donna A. Lopiano, Ph.D. <\/b>President and founder of Sports Management Resources, LLC, Adjunct Professor of Sports Management, Southern Connecticut State University, former Chief Executive Officer of the\u00a0 Women\u2019s Sports Foundation (1992-2007), Director of Women\u2019s Athletics, University of Texas at Austin\u00a0 (1975-1992). President of The Drake Group\u2014an organization focused on academic integrity in college sport. A Title IX sports pioneer, Lopiano specializes in gender equity in the educational and Olympic and elite sports spaces. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a\u00a0 nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Nancy Hogshead-Makar, J.D., OLY, <\/b>CEO Champion Women, civil rights lawyer, two-time Olympian, three-time gold medalist and one silver in swimming, U.S. National Team for eight years, 12 Halls of Fame,\u00a0 including the International Women\u2019s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall, 20 years of teaching Sports Law and Administration, current Professor at Rutgers University\u2019s Global Sports\u00a0 Business MS Program. Women\u2019s Sports Foundation – President 1991-1993, Legal Advisor, 2003-2010,\u00a0 Senior Director of Advocacy, 2010-2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Tracy Sundlun, CEO<\/b>, Everything Running, Inc., Founding Board Member, National Scholastic Athletics\u00a0 Foundation. Co-Founder and original Director of the National Scholastic (High School) Indoor & Outdoor\u00a0 Track & Field Championships (1984 \u2013 Present). Co-Founder, Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Marathon Series, at the time the largest running series in the world with over 500,000 participants annually in 29 events in 7 countries\u00a0 (1998 \u2013 2016). Former club and collegiate track coach (including Georgetown, Colorado, USC), guiding over 100 men and women in every event from 15 countries competed in the Olympic Games and international competitions. Six-time Olympic Coach and Manager (1972 \u2013 2016). Inducted into Running\u00a0 USA Hall of Champions.<\/span><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    https:\/\/womenssportspolicy.org\/\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    Contact Information:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    Donna A. Lopiano\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    Donna.Lopiano@gmail.com<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    516-380-1213\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    452 Fisher Court, Shelton, CT 06486<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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