Montgomery, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a coalition of 26 state attorneys general in sending a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), urging the organization to reinstate records, titles, awards, and recognitions to female athletes who they claim were denied rightful achievements due to past NCAA policies permitting biological males to compete in women’s sports categories.
The letter asserts that such policies placed female athletes at a disadvantage and calls on the NCAA to take additional steps to rectify past decisions. While recent changes have restricted biological males from participating in women’s events, the letter argues that these reforms do not correct prior perceived injustices.
“Allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports puts girls and young women at a profound disadvantage,” Attorney General Marshall said. “Science backs our arguments up: biological males have clear physical advantages, and a majority of Americans agree, this isn’t fair or safe… The NCAA owes it to those athletes to make it right. Fairness must be restored.”
The attorneys general emphasized the importance of preserving the integrity of Title IX and ensuring that women athletes receive the recognition they earned. The letter references NCAA’s own mission of celebrating student-athlete success, urging the organization to reflect that standard retroactively.
The coalition includes attorneys general from Mississippi, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
This letter follows continued national discourse over fairness in women’s sports and echoes a February letter from the U.S. Department of Education requesting that the NCAA reevaluate recognitions affected by past participation policies.
