Pablo Torre says NCAA has no transgender athletes, conveniently leaves out the reason why
Torre wanted to deliver a "gotcha" by calling the NCAA and reporting that it couldn't identify transgender athletes currently competing.
Key points
- CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE During an appearance on "Pablo Torre Finds Out," Maddow accused Republicans of inventing a problem that has "literally no contact with the real lives of 99.9999% of Americans." Torre, meanwhile, offered what he apparently considered a compelling piece of evidence.
- Pablo Torre and Rachel Maddow would like you to believe the controversy surrounding biological males competing in women's sports is a manufactured political issue.
- "We called the NCAA and we said, 'Hey, how many trans athletes are competing in women's sports, or at all?' And the NCAA told us there are effectively zero.
The very next day, the NCAA announced an immediate change to its transgender-athlete participation policy, restricting women's competition to "student-athletes assigned female at birth." The NCAA didn't even pretend the timing was a coincidence.
Additional details
- Of course, there’s Lia Thomas — the University of Pennsylvania swimmer who previously competed on the men's team went on to win the 2022 NCAA Division I women's 500-yard freestyle national championship, beating Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant.
- 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," directing federal agencies to enforce sex-based athletic protections under Title IX.
- OutKick reached out to Torre for comment but did not receive a response.
- In other words, the rule was changed to address the very issue Torre and Maddow now suggest was never a real problem in the first place.
- Then there's Sadie Schreiner, who won the 2024 Liberty League women's 200- and 400-meter outdoor titles while competing for Rochester Institute of Technology, setting a conference record in the latter event.
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