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women’s sports
Caitlin Clark’s former coach says she ‘tries to maximize her God-given talents’
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Apr 17, 2024 / 15:00 pm Caitlin Clark, a guard for the Iowa Hawkeyes, was selected as the No. 1 draft pick by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft on April 15. The record-breaking face of women’s college basketball …
House Republicans call for NCAA ban on biological men in women’s sports
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 18, 2024 / 08:00 am A group of 17 House Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Claudia Tenney from New York, is urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to prohibit biological men from participating in women’s sports. Under current NCAA rules, biological male athletes who …
Riley Gaines, other female athletes, sue NCAA for allowing transgender competitors
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 14:45 pm Riley Gaines and more than a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) on Thursday alleging that allowing men to compete in women’s competitions denies women protections promised under Title IX. In a …
‘Clerical error’ wipes out thousands of comments on new Biden gender-identity discrimination rule
by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 12, 2022 / 14:00 pm Today marks the end of the public comment period for the Biden administration’s updated Title IX rule after hundreds of thousands of comments disappeared from the record this weekend in a move the Education Department is calling a “clerical error.” …
More states pass bills aimed at protecting women’s sports
Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2021 / 05:00 am America/Denver (CNA). State legislatures of West Virginia and Kansas recently passed bills restricting participation in women’s sports to one’s biological sex and not gender identity. New legislation in West Virginia would require participation in single-sex sports teams and events to be based …