NCAA president Charlie Baker reacts to Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes
Female athletes, including Olympic medalist MyKayla Skinner and former college swimmer Riley Gaines, celebrate a Supreme Court ruling upholding state bans on transgender girls competing in women's sports.
NCAA president Charlie Baker said Sunday he doesn’t think the organization’s policy on transgender-athlete participation will be changed after the Supreme Court’s decision.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of West Virginia and Idaho on Tuesday against trans athletes who sued to gain access to girls' sports.
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NCAA President Charlie Baker attends the game between the Seton Hall Pirates and Providence Friars on February 11, 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
In the highly anticipated rulings in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, the high court upheld state laws requiring student-athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex at birth rather than their gender identity.
Baker appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation" and was asked whether the NCAA will have to "tweak" its policy.
"I don’t think so. I mean, generally speaking, we try to establish policies from most of our programs that can hopefully have a national standard to it," Baker said. "I’ve said to folks, Democrats and Republicans in Washington after I got this job, that we needed some sort of clarity around on what the national standard for this would be and we adopted and complied with the standard that was put forth by the Trump administration.
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