The NCAA announced on Monday in a release that they would be moving all seven previously awarded championship events from North Carolina for the 2016-2017 season due to its commitment to fairness and inclusion. They cited “the cumulative actions taken by the state concerning civil rights protections.”
In other words, the anti-LGBTQ bill HB2, which, among other things, forces transgender individuals to use the bathroom matching the gender on their birth certificate, not their gender identity, in government owned buildings (private businesses can set their own policies) and invalidates all non-discrimination ordinances passed by cities and municipalities.
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The Board of Governors stressed the importance of ensuring an inclusive atmosphere for all college athletes, coaches, administrators and fans, and that current state law makes it difficult to deliver on that commitment if events are held in North Carolina.
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“Fairness is about more than the opportunity to participate in college sports, or even compete for championships,” said Mark Emmert, NCAA president. “We believe in providing a safe and respectful environment at our events and are committed to providing the best experience possible for college athletes, fans and everyone taking part in our championships.”
The board stressed that the dynamic in North Carolina is different from that of other states because of at least four specific factors:
- North Carolina laws invalidate any local law that treats sexual orientation as a protected class or has a purpose to prevent discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individuals.
- North Carolina has the only statewide law that makes it unlawful to use a restroom different from the gender on one’s birth certificate, regardless of gender identity.
- North Carolina law provides legal protections for government officials to refuse services to the LGBT community.
- Five states plus numerous cities prohibit travel to North Carolina for public employees and representatives of public institutions, which could include student-athletes and campus athletics staff. These states are New York, Minnesota, Washington, Vermont and Connecticut.
“As representatives of all three divisions, the Board of Governors must advance college sports through policies that resolve core issues affecting student-athletes and administrators,” said G.P. “Bud” Peterson, Board of Governors chair and Georgia Institute of Technology president. “This decision is consistent with the NCAA’s long-standing core values of inclusion, student-athlete well-being and creating a culture of fairness.”
These seven championship events will be relocated from North Carolina for 2016-17:
- 2016 Division I Women’s Soccer Championship, College Cup (Cary), Dec. 2 and 4.
- 2016 Division III Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships (Greensboro), Dec. 2 and 3.
- 2017 Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, first/second rounds (Greensboro), March 17 and 19.
- 2017 Division I Women’s Golf Championships, regional (Greenville), May 8-10.
- 2017 Division III Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships (Cary), May 22-27.
- 2017 Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship (Cary), May 26 and 28.
- 2017 Division II Baseball Championship (Cary), May 27-June 3.
Emmert said the NCAA will determine the new locations for these championships soon.
“The NCAA Constitution clearly states our values of inclusion and gender equity, along with the membership’s expectation that we as the Board of Governors protect those values for all,” said Susquehanna University President Jay Lemons, vice chair of the Board of Governors and chair of the ad hoc committee on diversity and inclusion. “Our membership comprises many different types of schools – public, private, secular, faith-based – and we believe this action appropriately reflects the collective will of that diverse group.”
The only championship events that can be hosted in North Carolina this academic year are those that are decided when student-athletes earn the opportunity to play a championship on their own campus.
The NCAA also bans championships in states where governments display the Confederate battle flag, authorize sports betting or use hostile and abusive Native American imagery.
Based on an April directive from the Board of Governors, which represents all three divisions, cities interested in hosting future NCAA championships completed a questionnaire this summer that required sites to provide information about any local anti-discrimination laws; provisions for refusal of services; and other facility-specific information.
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A group of representatives from NCAA schools will continue to evaluate these responses to determine which locations can host future championships. These decisions, typically announced in early December, will be delayed until next year, Emmert said.
The NCAA had previously noted that they would begin considering these laws when determining where to hold their events.
North Carolina also recently lost the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, which was moved from Charlotte due to HB2.
Bauhaus
@abnerbha:
Maybe if you stopped fishing in public toilets for turds, your dementia would improve. A steady diet of restroom shit must be hazardous to your health, not to mention your breath.
Kangol
@Bauhaus: That is one seriously demented troll. It posts crazy stuff on here. I think it’s probably a nutty Catholic priest, a crazy imam, or a bonkers rebbe who comes to this site, get its rocks off, then starts to spin out of control because of all that “sin”!
abnerbha
@Kangol: : I’m a nonreligious person who sees something wrong with homosexual & lesbian conduct & I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes.I don’t care about gay/lesbian marriage & though information war has been lost, truth must still be said. I have thought about this & don’t think any1 can rebut conclusion that childhood sex abuse victims of gay/lesbian pedophiles have more risk of turning out gay/lesbian by copying the conduct they learned because think you know that conduct incl. sexual conduct can be learned. Think you know it is possible for people who are victims of same sex molestation (such as victims of gay pedophile priests) to copy this sexual conduct and do gay conduct in adulthood incl. turn out to be gay pedophiles.
With gay/lesbian conduct by adults, while I don’t believe in making it a crime by consenting adults, I do believe it’s best to find a cure for homosexual/lesbian conduct just as it’s best to find cure for tobacco use-also a legal product. If homosexual/lesbian conduct and tobacco use were to disappear eventually, then it’s fine with me and I wouldn’t lose sleep over it. I believe in abolishing sex change mutilations.
abnerbha
@Kangol: @Bauhaus: Think both of you have a bad memory as people who know my posts on Internet know that I am straight. Homosexuals often have dementia from AIDS & bad memories. I don’t know what dementia means as English wasn’t my first language but think it means bad mind. Many straight men think way that I do, so unless you have dementia, you wouldn’t be shocked.
I want to go into women’s bathrooms if there are pretty women in there & if a pretty woman wants to use men’s bathrooms, then that is fine. I want a pretty woman to go into men’s bathrooms but I wouldn’t want uglies like Ellen Lee DeGeneres and Rosie T. O’Donnell shitting in any bathroom so Ellen & Rosie can shit in diapers. Ellen Lee DeGeneres & Rosie T. O’Donnell both like to have farting & shitting contests in bathrooms, so Ellen & Rose both want to do battleshits contest in men’s bathrooms since women’s toilets got dirtied by them.
Bauhaus
@abnerbha:
Straight guys don’t frequent gay sites. The comments and the male flesh on here titillate you, no doubt – just own it, and stop blaming the attraction you feel on what happened to you during your childhood. Get help for the abuse you endured, and move on.
abnerbha
@Bauhaus:-talk of homosexual/lesbian is a good thing, yet call people gay as an insult. I have thought about this & don’t think any1 can rebut conclusion that childhood sex abuse victims of gay/lesbian pedophiles have more risk of turning out gay/lesbian by copying the conduct they learned because think you know that conduct incl. sexual conduct can be learned. Think you know it is possible for people who are victims of same sex molestation (such as victims of gay pedophile priests) to copy this sexual conduct and do gay conduct in adulthood incl. turn out to be gay pedophiles.
1 would hope that feminists would oppose the mutilation that happened to Chastity Sun Bono as feminists have spoken against Female Genital Mutilation which happens in some nations. Transexuals are mutilations which no Dr. should take part in, yet most feminists are not condemning this female genital and breast mutilation as what happened to Chastity S. Bono where her healthy breasts were mutilated, dangerous hormone shots and her genitals mutilated. They must abolish this surgical mutilation.