Why Volleyball Players Just Sued the NCAA Over Trans Competitors

WASHINGTON - March 15, 2024 - PRLog -- Many female athletes have just sued the NCAA over its policies of permitting males who claim to identify as females [M2F transgender athletes] to compete against girls and women.

But public interest law professor John Banzhaf argues that there is more which can and should be said.

Although some argue that it is very unfair to prohibit M2F athletes from playing on a women's team simply because they have a penis, a far greater number of traditional male athletes are currently banned from playing on women's teams because they have a penis but are not trans.

It is frequently argued that it is somehow unfair to prohibit M2F students from playing on women's collegiate NCAA volleyball teams simply because they have a penis, but fail to note that exactly the same prohibition applies to much larger number of non-trans volleyball players because they likewise have a penis.

For example, GWU, and literally hundreds of other universities, have a women's NCAA volleyball team but no corresponding men's NCAA volleyball teams.

So, says Banzhaf, each and every year thousands of male students who worked and trained hard in high school to become skilled volleyball players are denied any opportunity at all to continue playing competitive volleyball at these hundreds of universities, to compete for valuable volleyball scholarships, to enjoy advantages regarding admission to colleges, to possibly go on to play volleyball professionally and/or at the Olympics, etc., just because they have a penis.

In contrast, the number of M2F students at any university who have the requisite skill to play NCAA-level volleyball (women's or men's) is probably close to zero, since the percentage of all transgender students (both M2F and F2M) is only about 2%, and only a very small percentage of all college students, regardless of sexual orientation. have the extensive training and experience to be able to play volleyball at the NCAA level, notes Banzhaf.

Banzhaf has also documented that a large number of female athletes (both women and girls) have been seriously injured when being forced to play against a M2F competitor; even to the extent that some teams have been forced to forfeit games out of fear of additional injuries.

For example, just last month a girl's basketball team was forced to forfeit its game after one 6-foot bearded M2F "girl" on the opposing team seriously injured three of its players.

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