President Trump’s executive order yesterday is already having a big effect on sports. The NCAA’s Board of Governors has just voted to end their policy allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports:

Here’s more from ESPN:

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth only.

The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports. The order gives federal agencies latitude to withhold federal funding from entities that do not abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.

The NCAA policy change is effective immediately and applies to all athletes regardless of previous eligibility reviews. The NCAA has some 1,100 member schools with more than 500,000 athletes, easily the largest governing body for college athletics in the U.S.

“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”

This is totally the right thing to do and an overwhelming majority in the country supports it. But for the NCAA it’s all about the money, as they don’t want to lose any federal funding. It’s a shame that it took the threat of pulling funding to get them to rescind their ridiculous policy.