Spotlight on women's sports exposes this dark secret of the NCAA

Independent Women's Network chapter leader Michelle Evans and NCAA athlete Macy Petty tell Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt about attacks they witnessed during the signing of Texas' 'Save Women's Sports Act.'

Breaking attendance and viewership records, women's athletics continues to draw eyes under the arena lights. And this growing light is exposing dark secrets hidden inside: the college governing sports body's relentless overlook of sex discrimination.  

In the past several years, the debate over "trans inclusion" in athletics leaped onto the national stage when the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) awarded Lia Thomas, a male swimmer who identified as transgender, a Women's National Championship trophy. 

Despite widespread support for affirming sex-based protections, the NCAA has remained eerily quiet. They've continued a posture of passivity despite remaining a key player in uprooting the foundation of female athletics. 

The NCAA has refused to address the damage to female athletes by allowing biological males to compete in women's sports. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Current and former athletes, myself included, have appealed numerous times to the NCAA leadership and informed them of the disastrous consequences we suffer due to their neglect. 

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Though the NCAA claims a priority to "deliver safe, fair, and inclusive competition," the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) rule, announced a few weeks ago, affirms protections of female spaces – starkly in contrast to the NCAA. Theirs is an example of a true commitment to fairness. 

Meanwhile, the NCAA has punted on the issue, refusing to address the damage to female athletes, refusing