Overview

• Twenty-eight Republican attorneys general led by Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch asked NCAA President Charlie Baker to strip titles, awards and records from transgender women who competed in women’s college sports.
• The letter praises the NCAA’s February shift to an assigned-female-at-birth eligibility rule for women’s sports.
• Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas competed under a testosterone-suppression model in 2022, triggering a federal Title IX probe and the removal of her school records.
• NCAA President Charlie Baker has said there are fewer than ten transgender athletes in the association and has not responded to the AGs’ demands.
• The effort builds on a February Education Department request to revoke transgender athletes’ honors and comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on state bans next summer.