Attorney General Alan Wilson of South Carolina has joined a coalition of state attorneys general in urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restore records, titles, awards, and recognitions to female athletes who they say were denied these achievements due to policies that allowed biological males to compete in women’s sports categories.
“As the father of a teenage daughter who’s an athlete, I want to make sure she and every other female athlete have all the opportunities they deserve and are protected from having to compete against biological men,” Attorney General Wilson said. “It makes no sense for girls and women who’ve worked so hard to have their records and championships shoved aside by woke ideologies.”
The letter addressed to the NCAA criticizes policies created or promoted by both the Biden administration and the NCAA that permitted transgender women—referred to as “biological men” in the letter—to participate in women’s sports. The attorneys general wrote, “The policies that were created, promoted, and encouraged by the Biden administration and the NCAA not only enabled biological men to compete against women in sporting events across the country, but denied deserving women the recognitions they had earned in events that you managed…. While we appreciate the steps the NCAA has taken since then, there is far more the NCAA can do for the women athletes that have competed and continue to compete in your events.”
They further stated, “The NCAA should take this step for former athletes to preserve the integrity of Title IX and show your support for the women harmed by years of bad policy. As your website states, ‘Regardless of where they start, student-athletes strive to end each season at one of the NCAA’s 90 championships in 24 sports.’ Women athletes strived, succeeded, and were cheated of what they earned.”
The group points out that since taking office, former President Donald Trump signed executive orders aimed at supporting women’s sports and emphasized enforcement of Title IX regulations. Additionally, it was noted that earlier this year, a letter from the U.S. Department of Education also called on the NCAA to validate these recognitions.
Alongside Attorney General Wilson, attorneys general from 26 other states—including Mississippi, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota,Tennessee,T exas , Utah , Virginia , West Virginia , Wyoming—signed onto this effort.
A copy of their letter is available online.
