A letter from the Tennessee House Republican Caucus to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was published Tuesday, showing the House Republicans urged the NCAA to drop its rules allowing biological males who identify as transgender females to compete in women’s sports during its ongoing annual convention in Nashville.
Signed by every Republican in the State House, the letter was written by State Representative Johnny Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) and sent on January 9, and specifically pressed the NCAA to reverse its 2010 rule change that lawmakers wrote allowed, “men who decide to be women” to “displace real women in competitive sports,” at colleges throughout the country.
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