Kim Jones, former University Tennis Player All-American and co-founder of the Independent Women's Sports Council (icons), had a message for President Donald Trump in the midst of criticism that the new NCAA policy on transgender athletes still has lagoons.
The president signed an executive order that prohibits biological men from competing in women's sports. The NCAA continued the next day, reversing its policy on trans inclusion in women's sports.
Jones asked Trump for the NCAA to rewrite his policy again.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in female sporting events or girls, in the east room of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Call the NCAA back to the table and tell them to put the policy in the garbage boat, turn it on and start again,” he said in “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.
Jones was one of the critics who have insisted that this policy is not going far enough or establishes barriers clear enough to protect women's athletes in university ranks. The most common criticism has been that politics supposedly allows trans athletes to omit the restriction by changing gender in their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states allow altering birth certificates to change the birth sex of a person. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. Meanwhile, there are 14 states that allow sex in a birth certificate to change without required any medical documentation, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
The NCAA issued a statement to Fox News Digital that the Governing Body will not allow Trans athletes to compete in the women's category based on modified birth certificates.
“Politics is clear that there are no exemptions available, and athletes assigned to men at birth may not compete in a team of women with modified birth certificates or other forms of identification,” said the spokesman.
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The NCAA volleyballs are shown in the Male Volleyball Championship of Division I held in the Walter Pyramid on May 4, 2019 in Long Beach, California. (Photos of John W. McDonough/NCAA through Getty Images)
Jones said NCAA needed to do two absolutely mandatory. “
“The first must decide that membership in a women's team is for student athletes exclusively,” he said. “Secondly, there must be a detection mechanism to ensure that no male athlete can cross that barrier.”
She made it clear that the order of “No Men In Women's Sports” of Trump was far from solidified.
“It is not remotely a treatment made,” he added. “The policy published by the NCAA has no responsibility and supervision of the NCAA. It does not have a clear language that limits the women's team membership only with female athletes and does not have a mechanism to evaluate sex.”
With regard to athletes, traveling in a female team, NCAA considers that male practice players are a “basic element” of women's sports.
“Male practice players have been a basic element in university sports for decades, particularly in female basketball and the association will continue to explain that in politics,” said the spokesman.
However, the benefits that extend to trans athletes practicing in a women's team do not include scholarships, a familiar fox to Fox News Digital said.
The NCAA logo on the entrance sign outside the NCAA headquarters on February 28, 2023 in Indianapolis. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
These details are not currently described on the official page of the NCAA policy, since it does not make specific references to the birth certificate or identification amendments, or scholarships of women who go to trans athletes.
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It has not yet been determined if the NCAA performs an official update to address these criticisms.
Jackson Thompson of Fox News contributed to this report.
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