NCAA officially bans trans athletes from women's sports 1 day after Trump signs executive order

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The NCAA has officially changed its gender eligibility policies to ban all biological males from women's sports one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to address the issue.

The governing body of college sports announced on Thursday afternoon its new participation policy for transgender student-athletes. 

"A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team," the new policy reads. 

The new policy still allows biological females to compete on men's teams.

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The previous policy, which had been in place in 2010, allowed biological males to compete in the women's category after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment. 

Trump signed the "No Men in Women’s Sports" executive order in the East Room of the White House in front of female athletes on National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Wednesday. 

NCAA President Charlie Baker responded to the executive order in a statement later on Wednesday, saying it provided a "clear, national standard," and that the NCAA Board of Governors would review it and take steps to align the organization’s policy in the coming days.

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"The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes," the statement said. "We strongly believe that clear, consistent and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting