The transgender runner Evie Parts continues NCAA, Swarthorus College for the removal of the track team

The distance runner Evie Parts continued the NCAA and the Swarthorus College as well as the members of his athletics department, saying that he illegally withdrew him from the track team because she is a transgender athlete.

The shares law said that the ban on transgender athletes of NCAA in female sports had no legal grounds because it is not a government organization and therefore does not have jurisdiction on the law of the state of Pennsylvania or the federal law in title IX.

It was withdrawn from the team on February 6, the day the NCAA issued its new policy on transgender athletes.

The male and female track coach of Swarthmore, Peter Carroll, the sports director Brad Koch and those responsible for athletics Christina Epps-Chiazor and Valerie Gomez were also appointed to the trial. According to the complaint, they sent documents to “such a depressive state that it has engaged in self -control and said in an instant to a friend that she wanted to commit suicide”.

“We support the allegations of the complaint,” said Susie Cirilli, a lawyer who, with Co-Conseiller, Gadon, Rosen and Vinci, represents parties. “As indicated in the complaint, the NCAA is a private organization that has issued a sectarian policy. Swarthmore College, a private school of liberal arts in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, has chosen to follow this policy and not take into account the federal and state law.”

Swarthmore published a statement that she “deeply appreciates members of the Transgender community”.

“We recognize that it is a particularly difficult and painful period for members of the Transgender community, including student-athletes,” said the school. “We worked to support Evie Parts in a period of rapidly evolving advice, while balancing the capacity of other members of the female track team to participate in NCAA events. Given the current dispute, we will not comment more.”

The NCAA has chosen not to comment.

The participation policy has changed

NCAA has changed its participation policy for transgender athletes in order to limit competition in female sports to athletes allocated to birth. This change one day came after President Donald Trump signed an executive decree intended to prohibit transgender sports athletes for girls and women.

The Pennsylvania State Senate approved a bill with a margin of 32-18 on May 6 to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in female and girls at college levels and K-12. The House of Representatives controlled by the State should not vote on the bill.

Parts joined the SwarthMore Track team in the fall of 2020 before withdrawing the following four winter and spring seasons. She returned to the Division III team in 2023 to participate in the seasons of an interior and exterior track and the Cross-Country.

When the NCAA has expressed its prohibition, the trial indicates that the documents were informed by Epps-Chiazor and Gomez that it could compete with the male team or as an unit without attachment. She would only receive medical treatments, says the complaint, if she was in competition in the men’s team.

According to the trial, Carroll and her staff were not allowed to train the parts, she could not travel with the team, was not allowed to receive a journey or food and had to pay her way in the meetings. The parts could not wear a SwarthMore uniform either.

Swarthmore “completely reinstated” the pieces on April 11, said the trial, and she participated in the women’s team until her diploma in May.

In July, a transgender woman continued Princeton University claiming that she had been illegally removed shortly before her race in a track meeting hosted in May because of her gender identity. Sadie Schreiner, who had moved to high school, had previously organized for Division III Rochester Institute of Technology but was to compete as an attachment athlete in any school or club of the Larry Ellis Invitational. This complaint requires unpertified damage for a “humiliating, dehumanizing and dignity” test “in front of family and friends.