This week, more than a dozen female athletes brought forth a lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports and use women’s locker rooms at competitions. This comes after transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was allowed to compete as a woman and use the women’s locker room at the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships.
The lawsuit claims the NCAA and Georgia Tech, which hosted the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships, knowingly violated Title IX, the federal statute that guarantees equal opportunity for men and women in college education and sports, according to The Free Press.
The first federal action of its kind, the lawsuit demands that transgender athletes be ruled ineligible to compete against women and for the NCAA to revoke all awards given to trans athletes in women’s competitions and “reassign” them to other female competitors. The lawsuit “damages for pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expense costs and other damages due to defendants’ wrongful conduct.”
Obviously, this is a pretty significant move against transgender athletes, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media.
The NCAA is going to lose so many court cases in the coming years, so it's really nice of Riley and co. to give them one they should actually win https://t.co/4LJmAMz3Gu
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) March 14, 2024
the plaintiff list looks like a flock of karens ready to storm an hoa meeting https://t.co/ZkoRPOXgrY
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) March 14, 2024
Riley Gaines has made hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, entirely on inflicting pain and suffering on trans athletes. https://t.co/15mFkzG5oR pic.twitter.com/fFaxDZomDE
— tom gilbert (@tomgilbert03) March 14, 2024
The irony of Riley Gaines’ bigotry is that she wouldn’t be nearly as notable as she is if not for Trans people. https://t.co/WKGzYpGlr9
— Adam Drovetta (@ADrovetta) March 15, 2024
NCAA employee leaves a month ago, goes to sue the NCAA a month later.
— Big Ten information. College football fan (@Genetics56) March 14, 2024
the lengths people will go to rather than admit they just stink at sports 😂 https://t.co/5jhUq3UPCr
— 𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚣𝚒𝚎 🌈 (@kenziekate1989) March 14, 2024
It will certainly be interesting to see what comes of this lawsuit as this debate regarding transgender athletes wages on.
