NCAA responds as critics call out potential loopholes in its new trans-athlete policy

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The NCAA's amended gender eligibility policy has come under scrutiny by women's rights activists over apparent loopholes that some argue would continue to allow biological males to compete in women's sports. 

The NCAA changed its policy on Feb. 7 to comply with President Donald Trump's recent "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order, which was signed on Feb. 6. The new policy, which reversed a previous policy that had been in place since 2010 allowing trans athletes in women's sports, now states "a student-athlete assigned male at birth may practice on an NCAA women's team and receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes." 

The policy stated that "a student-athlete assigned male at birth may practice on an NCAA women's team and receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes."

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Many critics have insisted this policy does not go far enough or establish clear enough barriers to protect women's athletes in the college ranks. The most common criticism has been that the policy allegedly allows trans athletes to bypass the restriction by changing the gender on their birth certificate. 

In the U.S., 44 states do allow birth certificates to be altered to change a person's birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. Meanwhile, there are 14 states that allow sex on a birth certificate to be changed without any medical documentation required, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan. 

 "It offers no protection for women, doesn't follow federal law, and removes