BOISE, Idaho: NCAA officials will discuss Idaho’s law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports amid calls for the organization to move men’s basketball tournament games scheduled to be played in the state next March. The NCAA statement came a day after groups that advocate for civil rights and women’s rights joined notable athletes in asking the organization to move NCAA tournament games out of the state. The North Carolina law was repealed a year later and the NCAA lifted its ban on events in the state. A girls’ or women’s team will not be open to transgender students who identify as female. The groups also said the law scheduled to take effect July 1 is a violation of Title IX, the 1972 law that bars sex discrimination in education.

Source: Manila Times June 12, 2020 15:11 UTC