A game will occur today that The Google calls “NCAA Men’s Basketball”. Yet, in fact, nothing stops an athlete identifying with a gender other than “male” from joining either of the participating teams. From the NCAA’s rules:
And from Smith College:
Note that “such a team is eligible for a men’s NCAA championship” regarding a team in which athletes in a rainbow of gender IDs participate. By contrast, as soon as one “male” (however a biologist might define the term) is on a team, that team is ineligible for a “women’s NCAA championship.”
Given that Science recognizes 74 gender IDs, I’m not sure why the NCAA is stuck in gender binarism. What they actually offer are leagues that are gender-inclusive and leagues that are gender-restricted. It really should be “NCAA Gender-inclusive Basketball” (since a hoop-lover of any gender ID can compete) and “NCAA Women’s-only Basketball” or, perhaps, “NCAA Gender-restricted Basketball”.
What is a Man?
For some unfathomable reason no other genders want to compete in men’s contests. I wonder why. Must be transphobia or something.
an adult male human!
A Man is that which cannot compete in a women’s NCAA championship. Easy.
I think it’s been possible for women to complete in NCAA Men’s leagues for a while. It occasionally happens in baseball and football (as kickers). Of course those are sports where there is no Women’s team that directly substitutes.
In professional golf women have competed in the PGA Men’s tour before, going back to at least the 00s with Michelle Wie.
Suspect a new book called Real World Genders is coming, which identifies all the genders by state.
The problem with women’s basketball is that it’s boring. No dunking, slow pace, poor shooting. The cure? More men! If women’s basketball teams had at least 80% trans women, the games would be much more exciting.
Why do progressives watch “women’s basketball” in the first place? Even when not played in Texas, a state justifiably boycotted by California, it discriminates by gender ID. Why not watch only gender-inclusive sports where athletes can bring their authentic selves to the field?