ED letters urge NCAA and NFHS to strip transgender athletes' records and titles

Guidance/memoED

Date
Actor
ED Office for Civil Rights (Craig Trainor)
Agency
Department of Education (ED)
Type
Guidance/memo
Section
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Summary

OCR wrote the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations asking them to "restore" to cisgender female athletes all records, titles, and awards "misappropriated" by transgender women athletes, and to send apologies to affected athletes - extending EO 14201's logic retroactively to past seasons. The NCAA had already changed its participation policy on February 6, 2025, one day after the EO, limiting women's competition to athletes assigned female at birth.

Status

Advisory letter; record-erasure demands were subsequently embedded as mandatory terms in OCR resolution agreements (Penn, and proposed agreements to SJSU, Jeffco, and state agencies).

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