
16 Female Athletes File Lawsuit Against NCAA for Allowing Trans Women to Compete
Published on March 15, 2024
Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines and 15 other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s events. “It’s official! I’m suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, & roster spots to men posing as women,” Ms. Gaines stated on X, formerly known as Twitter. “The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about it,” she added. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of Atlanta on Thursday, centers around Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who won the women’s 500-yard freestyle race in the 2022 NCAA championship....
