NCAA President Charlie Baker told the Senate Judiciary Committee that NCAA female student-athletes who felt uncomfortable changing clothes in front of transgenders should find other accommodations.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over legalized sports gambling, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked Baker about the NCAA’s policies allowing trans athletes to compete on women’s teams. Hawley grilled Baker about the NCAA policy. It states, “transgender student-athletes should be able to use the locker room, shower, and toilet facilities in accordance with their gender identity.”
Baker, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, said the other athletes (women) could find other accommodations if they’re uncomfortable with it.
“Everybody else should have an opportunity to use other facilities if they wish to do so,” Baker said.
Listen to NCAA President Charlie Baker hem and haw and blame everyone from courts to “the locals” for HIS policy allowing men in women’s sports. It’s indefensible – and he knows it pic.twitter.com/gyFUm5qvJ0
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 17, 2024
Charlie Baker told Sen. Dick Durbin there are over 510,000 athletes who are in NCAA schools, but under 10 claim to be trans. So, everyone has to accommodate under ten people.
At the hands of NCAA leadership, my teammates & I had to strip down naked in front of a 6’4″, fully intact, naked man.
Read that again.
Where’s the accountability @NCAA? Stop blaming others for your failures.
Thanks to @HawleyMO for holding their feet to the fire. https://t.co/EUN5u9MYaQ
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) December 17, 2024
Baker at first said it’s debatable that biological males have an advantage over females.
Senators Josh Hawley and John Kennedy RIP APART NCAA President Charlie Baker for failing to protect women…
Kennedy: “A biological male will always have a physical advantage over a biological female. Is that true?”
Baker: “There isn’t a lot of research on it, but it’s… pic.twitter.com/uZpMp8rnpy
— Zach Costello (@ZachCostello_) December 18, 2024
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NCAA displays total insanity.
Real women, especially modest women, not wanted. You can pay to play!
Fake women (men in disguise who are losers), we have money for you!
I would subscribe that all the women, real women, need to just refuse to play. I don’t know much about the NCAA and if this knob can be booted or not or how that would work. I get it, this is a dream for these women, scholarships, potential professional careers, but if they don’t take a stand as one, nothing… Read more »