Georgia University Leaders Urge NCAA to Ban Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

The regents that oversee Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges on Tuesday voted in favor of a resolution urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The Board of Regents voted to support a resolution that calls on the NCAA and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) to update their student-athlete transgender participation policies to align with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’s (NAIA) new rules. The resolution states that female athletes could be put at a “competitive disadvantage” when competing with athletes “who are biologically male or who have undergone masculinizing hormone therapy.”...