Statement from NCAA president Charlie Baker on Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO. - ThreadSky

jessedougherty.bsky.social • 23 days ago

Statement from NCAA president Charlie Baker on Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO.

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stirfrygirl.bsky.social•23 days ago

Shorter Charlie Baker: "Yes, I am a Nazi."

gilbygamer.bsky.social•22 days ago

Make note of the names of fascists. Remember who Charlie Baker is.

gabbklein.bsky.social•23 days ago

Consistency is so important. Sure, these standards are hateful and harmful, but they're *consistently* hateful and harmful.

onewordlong.bsky.social•23 days ago

That's not the sweat of sports, it's the smell of cowardness

strizzle78.bsky.social•23 days ago

Who is Charlie Baker? And why is is he such a fucking boot licking bitch?

noodlehead70.bsky.social•23 days ago

Former Gov. Of Mass. Wow.

natlyon.com•23 days ago

Not every state agrees.
Waiting for the NCAA to do something really stupid like- start a MAGA League.

northcarolinats.bsky.social•23 days ago

mcmarkface.bsky.social•23 days ago

He was shitass as a governor and he continues to be shitass

steveln6.bsky.social•23 days ago

I’m so glad he can cowtow to Trump when this policy applies to less than 10 people. Because that’s how many trans NCAA athletes there are currently.

lopatog.bsky.social•22 days ago

Finally fairness!

helenopinion.bsky.social•22 days ago

I like Bluesky but it sure is an echo chamber. My guess is about 80% of people probably agree with this. Doesn't mean 20% shouldn't have their say but the balance is striking.

secretlynora.bsky.social•21 days ago

You MUST add alt-text so blind and low-vision folks get this. Make it DEFAULT in your settings. Bare minimum.

jessedougherty.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yes, sorry! Was moving too fast and typically make sure to. Miss by me and I’ll go into settings soon. Thanks for the reminder!

secretlynora.bsky.social•21 days ago

Thank you! Didn't mean to be a bitch about it, just so many people on here, journalists especially, don't do it. Appreciate it! 😊

javi.beesky.social•23 days ago

@alexfischca.bsky.social yall going to let them do this to San Jose State?

freezasaurus.bsky.social•23 days ago

tl;dr "Yes Dear Leader, right away. *Gobble gobble gobble* your balls are delicious, sir."

robbysimpson.bsky.social•23 days ago

fuck Charlie Baker

donkronenberger.bsky.social•23 days ago

So NCAA is aligned with fascist goals and White Christian Nationalism. Sad to see.

findmywayhome.bsky.social•23 days ago

NCAA is a for profit organization and not surprised they bent the knee faster than the Washington Post.

argle-bargler.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nearly every person of wealth, power, or authority in this country has been an absolute coward. B

screamingmd.bsky.social•23 days ago

Booooooo on the NCAA

queersky.xyz•23 days ago

ALT TEXT: Today, NCAA President Charlie Baker issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's executive order:

"The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes. (1/4)

queersky.xyz•23 days ago

We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard. (2/4)

queersky.xyz•23 days ago

The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the executive order and will take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration. The Association will continue to help foster welcoming environments on campuses for all student-athletes. (3/4)

queersky.xyz•23 days ago

We stand ready to assist schools as they look for ways to support any student-athletes affected by changes in the policy." (4/4)

warrenwp.bsky.social•23 days ago

The emerging Larry Nassar's appreciate the NCAA

bluebirdofunhap.bsky.social•23 days ago

Stop buying NCAA merch.

lilmissmolly.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck Charlie Baker

zoeyashley.bsky.social•23 days ago

530,000 athletes and only 10 of them are trans. Seems like a non issue to me

casonband.bsky.social•23 days ago

It’s…not law.

reedd21.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cowardice and fear from the NCAA

daniellally.bsky.social•23 days ago

Tear it all down

cascada57.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why is everyone automatically complying with all this? Make FFOTUS try to enforce it himself.

realhairy.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fucking cowards. @ncaa.bsky.social NCAA idiotic anyway. Should rebrand themselves as professional sports farms teams. They've proven time and again taht collegiate is the farthest from their mission!

noodlehead70.bsky.social•23 days ago

Boycott March madness. Protest every game.

joseortega78.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh on this they will move quickly but other topics they drag their feet

tigermakers.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just keep in mind, the NCAA is literally the schools, including your favorite school.

williamzabka424.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, so fuck every single one of them.

tigermakers.bsky.social•23 days ago

I mean, you could try but maybe start by individually contacting the board of directors.

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2021/5/26/who-are-the-ncaa-board-of-governors.aspx

tigermakers.bsky.social•23 days ago

Excuse me, board of governors. You could also contact the president of your favorite college, b/c the NCAA is their representative, and let them know how you feel on this, or any subject.

thetallsister.bsky.social•23 days ago

Disgusting. I’m ashamed of Americans

spy831.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yeah align your policy to an EO that’s going to be blocked in the courts.

elegantmule.bsky.social•23 days ago

By the time the Supreme Court is done with it they'll decide trans people aren't trans, or people. And thus have "No Rights Which the White Man was Bound to Respect".

chasmat.bsky.social•23 days ago

Neil Gorsuch wrote Bostock, which was decided 6-3. Unless Ketanji Brown Jackson is a secret TERF, there’s still at least 5 votes from that majority

kittenbitten.bsky.social•23 days ago

Assuming he doesn't change his vote for political reasons.

wrecked9n76e.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why does Charlie Baker care so much about what athletes genitals look like 👀 @shamsbot.bsky.social this is a story you should write.

acousticrflx.bsky.social•23 days ago

Dumb ass organization.

illegaltoilet.bsky.social•23 days ago

spineless fucks

jayhawkjack.bsky.social•23 days ago

What a feckless organization

livensleazy.bsky.social•23 days ago

Charlie Baker @ncaa.bsky.social can get fucked by a blue whale

aje.bsky.social•23 days ago

No courage. I can easily see them endorsing or enabling policies that harm BIPOC or ppl of certain religious faiths. It is shameful.

lynniereads.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fucking loser. I don’t see why transgender athletes are such an issue. Let them play!

helenopinion.bsky.social•22 days ago

Nobody's stopping them from playing.

argonianmage.bsky.social•23 days ago

They aren't an issue, it's nothing more than unchecked hatred and misogyny. They pretend they're protecting women while at the same time implying women as inferior to men.

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•23 days ago

So, this means they're firing all of the male coaching staff, trainers, and department directors, right?

docanon.bsky.social•23 days ago

Surprising no one at all. And not enough schools will call for his removal

pataz1.bsky.social•21 days ago

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/6/2301993/-Universities-will-have-to-decide-bow-down-to-Trump-or-defend-their-students-and-missions#comment_90665452

pataz1.bsky.social•23 days ago

So the @ncaa.bsky.social is complying with an illegal order in advance, and choosing Trump over their students.

helenopinion.bsky.social•22 days ago

Would be interesting to survey how their students feel about it.

wrecked9n76e.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why is the @ncaa.bsky.social (nvm the POTUS) obsessed with people’s genitals?

oosmuppet.bsky.social•23 days ago

Pedophiles always are

limeyjeff.bsky.social•22 days ago

Blocked the NCAA profile and reported them as an anti trans organization.

antisocialworker77.bsky.social•23 days ago

Folding like a card table

Pathetic.

halcyonember.bsky.social•23 days ago

He forgot the asterisk

*trans women need not apply

katastrophe98.bsky.social•23 days ago

We should boycott March Madness

mcmillen.dev•23 days ago

previously in Charlie Baker,

https://bsky.app/profile/mcmillen.dev/post/3lcnnfbokuk2p

mosheroperandi.bsky.social•23 days ago

Vichy little fuck

teenagephlebotomy.bsky.social•23 days ago

I hope he chokes.

davidavid.bsky.social•23 days ago

It didn’t take a day before Charlie Baker rolled over for this piece of garbage EO.

There are more students with raging STDs than the less than 10 transgender students he testified were in NCAA sports.

romwriteenable.bsky.social•23 days ago

what are the odds that he helped write it?

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

I have a hard time understanding why my party doesn’t think females deserve our own category of sports.

Breaks my heart a little…the disrespect of women in the name of social accommodation for males who find deep psychological comfort in being treated as though they’re the opposite sex.

mattferrel.bsky.social•23 days ago

Piss off

timothydiamond.bsky.social•23 days ago

Susan you're a hateful bigot.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

Progressives call me a bigot for voicing a concern for women’s rights. Wonder why we lost the last election🤔

Ordinarily women love to back the party that demonizes us for having opinions about our rights… 🤷‍♀️

timothydiamond.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck your transphobic ass. All women deserve to be treated as people. Trans women deserve to be acknowledged and respected as who they are women.

None of this has anything to do with the results of the election. You're just lashing out for people rightfully calling what you are, a bigot.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

When you say trans women are women then females cease to exist as a biological, social and political class of humans separate from males.

Who raised you to have such dismissive disdain for females?

Nothing progressive about that.

timothydiamond.bsky.social•23 days ago

My single mom who's now in her 70's and acknowledges trans women as existing too.

bubbayega.bsky.social•23 days ago

Couldn’t imagine being a teammate with someone like you lol

pdxcorgidad.bsky.social•23 days ago

Away with you, TERF.

ameliaearnhardt.bsky.social•23 days ago

Eat shit, Susan

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

Because I have an opinion about women’s rights?

Huh.

rinkuraku.bsky.social•23 days ago

If you have a hard time understanding, have you considered there might be information you don't possess that others do, explaining their support. There are physiological causes of being trans. It's a physical part of who we are. The science is actually fascinating.

rinkuraku.bsky.social•23 days ago

Like there are distinct differences in male and female brain structure. When doing studies on medical cadavers of trans people, trans women, regardless of whether or not they had HRT, had a brain structure more like a cis woman than a cis man.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is a fable that’s been debunked. C’mon..

rinkuraku.bsky.social•23 days ago

Perhaps you've heard of phantom limb syndrome? Google it if not. Studies comparing post op trans women to cis men who had their thing removed for accident or disease showed trans women were half as likely to have phantom penile sensations as cis men, and those that did faded.

rinkuraku.bsky.social•23 days ago

Studies have also shown some pre-op trans women experience phantom vaginal sensations, and some pre-op trans men experience phantom penile sensations.

Being trans is a real, physiological thing, and defining people by what's between our legs is flawed, at best.

You can look all of this up, btw.

pdxcorgidad.bsky.social•23 days ago

She knows. She doesn't care. TERFs gonna TERF, ya know?

Btw, I appreciated very much what you wrote. Thank you.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

Also, who funded these studies and how do these groups producing their studies earn money?

Follow the money. Trans medicine is a multi billion dollar boom for big pharma.

Follow the money. It’s illuminating. And troubling.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

That you use the word phantom along with “real” is telling.

I agree that trans is a real condition, that trans identifying males are experiencing real symptoms. What I don’t agree with is that what they’re experiencing is womanhood.

I have real respect for what it means to be female.

aih.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck off, Nazi bigot. Trans men are fully men and trans women are fully women regardless of how you feel about it, facts don't care about your feelings.

aih.bsky.social•23 days ago

Take your misogyny back to Twitter where it belongs.

sastanleynofo.bsky.social•23 days ago

Clearly you don’t know what the word misogyny means.

Perhaps social media isn’t your strength

patspark.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cowards everywhere I look.

shanerad.bsky.social•23 days ago

How are they going to enforce that? Mandatory pussy checks?

dxllmusic.bsky.social•23 days ago

Let me offer the sincerest apologies on behalf of the great state of Massachusetts for electing this dipshit governor a whopping two times

halfcourtshot.bsky.social•23 days ago

Profiles in cowardness.

saudades.bsky.social•23 days ago

rabid fucking scum

arreffbee.bsky.social•23 days ago

Charlie Baker was a spineless embarrassment as a governor and is now an even more spineless embarrassment as whatever the hell he is now

mcmarkface.bsky.social•23 days ago

lol I’ll never forgive nor forget what he’s done to our transit network (on top of plenty other things)

itselizalee123.bsky.social•23 days ago

What a lil bitch.

johnnephew.bsky.social•23 days ago

How about he assist schools by filing suit to block the EO from violating the rights and dignity of student athletes? Oh, wait, that's not what NCAA is about. It's just $$. Well, go on and lick that billionaire king's boot.

johnnephew.bsky.social•23 days ago

what a worthless bootlicker

osbournemom.bsky.social•23 days ago

Pussies.

tzipshmil.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump signed more anti trans EOs than there trans athletes.

sfbay19.bsky.social•23 days ago

I want to hear these stories of life long injuries as a result of trans athletes. I haven't heard the BS stories about that yet. They just be making up ish

kat021171.bsky.social•23 days ago

Supposedly a woman was maimed for life by getting her orbital fractured by a volleyball spiked by a trans woman. The thing is, orbital fractures end up being one of the more common volleyball injuries because faces meeting balls moving at high velocities rather often.

sfbay19.bsky.social•23 days ago

So an injury that existed and occured before trans participation and will continue to exist and occur without trans participation.

kat021171.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, exactly. But because one trans woman was responsible for one of these injuries, it's all about her "brutish, manly strength" according to the TERFs, and not because of the nature of the sport.

simontalks.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck that guy.

derekaubut.bsky.social•23 days ago

Baker is a spineless Republican

ach4dc.bsky.social•23 days ago

baker is punk-made

The students should strike until they get it together and support all folks playing sports

pdxcorgidad.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yeah about that...I'm going to urge you to read about this past season's Mountain West Conference volleyball. Trust me, it isn't a fun time.

ecppdx.bsky.social•23 days ago

So are we boycotting? Or something else?

matts48blues.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why issue a statement at all (2 hours after the weird signing with all the little girls around a felon)? Just really weak, so so so weak

cal-native.bsky.social•23 days ago

He recently testified in front of congress that there are fewer than ten transgender athletes out of 530,000 student athletes. But republicans are determined to just be cruel to any group they don’t like.

tzadeekrex.bsky.social•23 days ago

“I am a bigot,” four words is all he needed

solveforgenx.bsky.social•22 days ago

~600,000 NCAA athletes and

~10 transgender athletes

100% caving in to authoritarianism

sobekhotep97.bsky.social•23 days ago

Bigoted cowards

fredwesley.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cowards.

jessedougherty.bsky.social•23 days ago

Broader coverage here from my @washingtonpost.com colleagues: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/05/transgender-students-trump-executive-order/

pataz1.bsky.social•23 days ago

The Washington post, like most mainstream media, is just a continuous infomercial for the GOP

kmr-kevin.bsky.social•23 days ago

Are you trying to say that this article is pro-GOP/Trump? Did you even read it? (Not even the headline by itself indicates any kind of bias at all.)

caymanwent.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, any headline that reads as "well, what can you do, the president said so" is a capitulation to that power. Doesn't matter the political parlance what matters is that we're conceding unilateral power to a despot over something that's barely an issue.

kmr-kevin.bsky.social•22 days ago

You are reading WAY too much into that headline. It was a simple statement of the fact of what he did, and there is absolutely no hint of "capitulation" in it. I get it, WaPo does not have a great track record, but don't condemn them for something that they actually get right.

pataz1.bsky.social•22 days ago

The Washington post, like almost all mainstream media, are just continuous infomercials for the GOP.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/4/2301223/-How-CNN-helped-re-elect-Trump

caymanwent.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is not a time to be nitpicking, fight for real people! Fight for your community! Stop letting them tell you how to think and accept the opposition as powerless! We are the opposition!

gophergrad.bsky.social•23 days ago

What do we expect from an org that purposely remains in Ini-fkn-ana?

blerdmommy.bsky.social•23 days ago

@alt-text.bsky.social

razzamatazz11.bsky.social•23 days ago

How tf is this possible? What's next? Can he sign an EO saying that the Chiefs win the Super Bowl?

sorrykb.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cowards.

cjcflint.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just last December 2024, the same Charlie Baker testified to Senate Judiciary Committee that there were roughly 10 trans athletes out of the 510,000 athletes attending NCAA schools.

johnbrownbread.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wow what a filthy bigot

freeradical7.bsky.social•23 days ago

A garbage organization doing garbage things.

collaterly.bsky.social•23 days ago

Repulsive fucking Nazi

rinkuraku.bsky.social•23 days ago

So let me get this straight. College students are one of the most liable to protest. The NCAA runs college sports. That play in college arenas. With lots of College students in the area. And March Madness is coming up soon with 10 million viewers per game on average.

birddecentralise.bsky.social•23 days ago

nazi collaborators

marieholmes.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nothing "fosters a welcoming environment" like a mandatory genital examination. Which students are being "protected" by these policies?

cpi.bsky.social•23 days ago

When are they just going to be straight-up murdering trans kids in cold blood? Saving that EO for next week?

elemental13.bsky.social•23 days ago

i used to say charlie baker was my favorite republican (still worse than many dems) because of what he did as governor.
now i dont like him anymore

novadam.bsky.social•23 days ago

collaborators

abinthe413.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck Charlie Baker…

rewinn.bsky.social•23 days ago

What is the authority of the President of the United States to give orders to the NCAA?

Other than sheer brute force.

gedutton.bsky.social•23 days ago

Indeed, that is precisely the question. Arguably it does not exist.

robgoldbergo.bsky.social•23 days ago

None, but the NCAA can freely decide to take orders if they so choose

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•23 days ago

Because they hate trans people and wanted to do it anyway

knomercy.com•23 days ago

100% this -- they took the opportunity to get in his good graces while allowing him to be a scapegoat for something they already wanted to do

rewinn.bsky.social•23 days ago

Ah yes, the Constitution's famous "Bully Clause"

jblasco913.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yep so many of these large corporations, and yes that's what the ncaa is, didn't really care for or support progressive ideology so Trump winning again gives them free reign to be their awful selves

aih.bsky.social•23 days ago

Directly, none.

But by reinterpreting the non-discrimination provisions of Title IX, it can force universities to bend if they want to keep receiving federal student aid.

realchrispeterson.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nope.

aih.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm not saying it's a compelling legal argument, just that that *is* the mechanism they're using to claim federal authority here.

mintyjulep.bsky.social•23 days ago

Public universities bending is one thing. The NCAA is under no obligation to also put it in writing, and if it were implemented on the college's end, they wouldn't need to. The fact that they are is just vice signaling.

collaterly.bsky.social•23 days ago

fucker is doing exactly what he wants. Stop making excuses. organizations are “forced “to do nothing by an executive order

rewinn.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fair enough.
The job of lawyers is to interpret language to accomplish the goals of the client, and "discrimination" is a word with many possible meanings.

chasmat.bsky.social•23 days ago

SCOTUS just told us that the executive has no special power to give authoritative interpretations of statutes. And Bostock interpreted materially identical language in Title VII to forbid anti-trans discrimination

So still just power and bullying