Department of Education Asks NCAA, High Schools to Erase Records Set by Transgender Athletes
One day after President Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from participation in women’s and girls sports the Department of Education asked the NCAA and National Federation of State High School Associations to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”
While there has been no response from the NCAA they have changed their participation policy to restrict competition in women’s sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth.
The number of transgender athletes in women’s and girls sports has been on the rise in recent years with many of these athletes breaking records and displacing former female champions. This has sparked an outcry from many female athletes led by Riley Gaines who witnessed this first hand as a swimmer for the University of Kentucky and watched in horror as the former Will Thomas now swimming as Lia Thomas broke records at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships robbing actual women from their just due.
Thomas, like many transgender athletes was a middling swimmer as a man and used his natural advantage to literally muscle out other female swimmers as he set new records.
The Education Department was firm in its reasoning for making the request.
“The Trump Education Department will do everything in our power to right this wrong and champion the hard-earned accomplishments of past, current, and future female collegiate athletes,” said Candice Jackson, deputy general counsel at the department according to the Associate Press.
Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
He resides in the suburbs around the nation’s capital and is a proud father and grandfather.
