AG Yost calls NCAA to restore female athlete honors, citing Title IX

COLUMBUS, Oh. - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined 26 attorneys general across the country to pen a letter to the NCAA, urging the association to restore the records of female athletes who were impacted by biological males participating in female sports in recent years, according to a recent statement from Yost's office.

Yost said the protections of Title IX have been upended in recent years and denied female athletes the honors they have earned.

"There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged," the attorneys general write in their letter to the NCAA. 

The attorneys general also acknowledge the NCAA's efforts to update policies like the Participation Policy for Transgender Student Athletes, which was adjusted in February to read: "A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team" and "A student-athlete assigned female at birth who has begun hormone therapy (e.g., testosterone) may not compete on a women’s team."

Yost and his fellow attorneys general state in the letter that the NCAA must support "women harmed by years of bad policy" and restore appropriate recognitions.

Yost signed the letter to the NCAA alongside the attorneys general of: Alabama; Alaska; Arkansas; Florida; Georgia; Idaho; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; New Hampshire; North Dakota; Oklahoma; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Virginia; West Virginia; Wyoming.