Stanford University will be barring transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports following similar policies from the NCAA.
Policy documents obtained by The Stanford Daily show that the changes will apply to any athletes who were assigned male at birth as well as any athletes assigned female at birth and have since begun hormone therapy.
Such athletes can practice with the women’s team but no longer compete with the team, according to Stanford.
The university’s policy is similar to the policy announced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which prohibited transgender students from competing in women’s sports at the college level and “receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes”.
This came after an executive order signed by President Donald Trump titled “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports”, which bans trans women and girls in female sports, stating that “ignoring fundamental biological truths between the two sexes deprives women and girls of meaningful access to educational facilities”.
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