EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice and greater than half a dozen GOP senators are in search of clarification from the NCAA on its coverage permitting organic males in ladies’s locker rooms, telling Fox Information Digital that the group must clarify that “a ladies’s locker room is for ladies solely.”
Justice, R-W.Va., penned a letter to Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation President Charlie Baker Monday, obtained solely by Fox Information Digital.
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Justice, who’s a ladies’s basketball coach at Greenbrier East Excessive College in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and has coached each girls and boys basketball since he was governor of West Virginia, defined to Fox Information Digital that he’ll “at all times” work to make sure feminine athletes are protected.
“I’m a coach, and I do know the very last thing any athlete wants is to be distracted or involved with their very own security or privateness whereas in a locker room,” Justice instructed Fox Information Digital. “I actually consider the NCAA has made the suitable transfer following President Trump’s order, however let’s be clear throughout the board {that a} ladies’s locker room is for ladies solely.”
West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice is a ladies’s basketball coach at Greenbrier East Excessive College and has coached each girls and boys basketball since he was governor of West Virginia. (Sen. Jim Justice)
Justice added: “I’ll at all times work to ensure ladies athletes, like these I coach again in West Virginia, really feel protected whereas altering in locker rooms and competing in athletic occasions.”
The letter Justice despatched Monday additionally was signed by Sens. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Jim Banks, R-Ind., James Risch, R-Idaho, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and James Lankford, R-Okla.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his State of the State tackle, Jan. 10, 2024, in Charleston, W.Va.
“On February 5, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an govt order–Holding Males Out of Ladies’s Sports activities to strengthen Title IX and shield alternatives for organic feminine athletes to compete in protected and truthful sports activities.’ After the Biden-Harris administration’s assault on Title IX in its efforts to permit biologically male athletes who establish as feminine to compete in ladies’s sports activities, this order got here as a sigh of reduction to thousands and thousands of feminine athletes throughout the nation who want equal alternative to interact in aggressive athletic,” Justice wrote.
Justice stated that the NCAA responded to Trump’s order by updating its student-athlete participation coverage to dam organic male college students from collaborating in ladies’s sports activities— a transfer he and his Senate colleagues “commend,” however is additional encouraging the group to “take further steps to guard the security and privateness of feminine athletes nationwide.”
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“The NCAA’s new coverage makes clear that organic male student-athletes might not compete on a ladies’s staff. We couldn’t be extra supportive of this important coverage change,” Justice stated. “The NCAA’s coverage ensures that organic male athletes who apply with feminine athletes will ‘obtain all different advantages relevant to student-athletes who’re in any other case eligible for apply.’”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the NCAA for remark and didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Justice stated the NCAA has “a chance to make clear that these ensures don’t embody entry to amenities that might undermine the privateness and security of feminine athletes- -such as ladies’s locker rooms or different female-only areas which the President’s order made clear ought to be protected.'”
Justice is asking that the NCAA “think about including language to its coverage that explicitly bars organic male athletes from female-only areas and to contemplate adopting further privateness protections for ladies and ladies in sports activities.”
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Justice, although, applauded the NCAA’s coverage defining “*intercourse assigned at beginning” because the male or feminine designation that medical doctors assign to infants at beginning, which is marked on beginning data.
“Publicly, the NCAA has affirmed that organic male athletes might not compete on a ladies’s staff with amended beginning certificates or by different documentary means,” Justice wrote. “The NCAA’s public stance on this problem is commendable, and its coverage might go a step additional and explicitly state that amended beginning certificates are prohibited.”
“We stand in help of President Trump’s unparallel actions to guard the security and privateness of feminine athletes throughout the nation,” the letter states. “The NCAA’s efforts are likewise respectable, and we look ahead to working with you to make sure ladies and ladies have equal alternative in athletics.”
