A 50 year old transgender college student and basketball player

[Guest Amanda Whyte]

Transsexual woman -- 50 years old, 6 feet 8 -- debuts on Santa Clara junior college basketball team

http://www.dailybulletin.com/california/ci_22132492/transsexual-woman-50-years-old-6-feet-8

[Charlize]

What a fun story!. I feel sorry for the young women she is playing though.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Amanda Whyte]

I think this is a fair rule:

NCAA gender rules

While Gabrielle Ludwig's California junior college association uses a birth certificate as the determining factor of gender for athletic eligibility, the NCAA loosened its requirements in August 2011.

The new policies state:

A trans male (female to male) student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone for gender transition may compete on a men's team but is no longer eligible to compete on a women's team without changing the team status to a mixed team. A mixed team is eligible only for men's championships.

A trans female (male to female) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender transition may continue to compete on a men's team but may not compete on a women's team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment.

"As a core value, the NCAA believes in and is committed to diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches and administrators," NCAA Director of Inclusion Karen Morrison wrote in a memo to the NCAA membership. "Since participation in athletics provides student-athletes a unique and positively powerful experience, the goals of these policies are to create opportunity for transgender student-athletes to participate in accordance with their gender identity while maintaining the relative balance of competitive equity within sports teams."

[Guest]

That is so cool. Testosterone suppressants without a mention of Estrogen? That would be like a Starbucks without the whipped cream on top!

Gabi :score: You go girl! Thanks Amanda. Hug. Jody

[Drea]

Once again here we have a MTF who is argueaby well past her prime competing at quite a high level against women in their prime. For all the arguments that a years worth of hormones equalizes things doesn't this raise questions.

Where are the FTM competing at a high level in any mens divisions much a past his prime FTM doing so?

A trans female (male to female) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender transition may continue to compete on a men's team but may not compete on a women's team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment.

No way a years worth of T suppression equalizes things.

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Interesting.

I'll comment more later.

Brenda

[Guest Kelly-087]

That is so cool. Testosterone suppressants without a mention of Estrogen? That would be like a Starbucks without the whipped cream on top!

Gabi :score: You go girl! Thanks Amanda. Hug. Jody

Can't imagine it. But no doubt they're only concerned with how the high levels of testosterone could give her give a massive edge against ggs.

[Carolyn Marie]

I have very mixed emotions about this. While I'm happy for Gabrielle, I'm not at all sure that its fair. I also hope that she's in great physical shape, because competing with youngsters could prove detrimental to her health.

Carolyn Marie