Republican attorney generals from 27 states and Guam sent a letter to NCAA president Charlie Baker demanding medals awarded to transgender athletes should be re-awarded to female athletes.

“We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write today to urge the NCAA to restore to female athletes all championships, titles, wins, awards, records, and other recognitions that were wrongfully awarded to male athletes competing in NCAA women’s category events, as the U.S. Department of Education urged in its February 11, 2025 letter to the NCAA,” the letter says.

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“Since taking office in January, President Trump has made restoring fairness to women athletes a priority,” they added. “While we appreciate the steps the NCAA has taken since [the Biden administration], there is far more the NCAA can do for the women athletes that have competed and continue to compete in your events.”

The officials cited two Trump executive orders, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” and “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” in their argument against transgender athletes. The latter order threatened to defund educational institutions “that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.”

“The NCAA has the opportunity and privilege to impact the lives of so many student athletes in a positive or negative way. There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged,” they wrote.

The University of Pennsylvania announced an agreement with the Trump administration in July, banning transgender athletes and restoring titles to female athletes who lost to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. Penn also agreed to send an apology letter to each swimmer who lost records or titles to Thomas.

The attorneys general acknowledged Penn’s actions in the letter and praised them, urging other collegiate institutions to follow suit.

“We urge the NCAA to develop a plan to restore all appropriate recognitions to the women athletes who were wrongfully denied all that they earned,” they concluded.

At a hearing in December, the NCAA signaled it hoped for clarity at the federal level.

“We’re a national governing body and we follow federal law,” Baker said.

The NCAA later limited transgender athletes participation in female sports “to student-athletes assigned female at birth only.”

“The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes. 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. To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard,” Baker said in an accompanying statement.

US OLYMPICS BANS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS IN COMPLIANCE WITH TRUMP ORDER

Signees of the letter include all Republican attorneys general like Texas’s Ken Paxton, Virginia’s Jason Miyares, and Florida’s James Uthmeier.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee indicated it will comply with Trump’s executive orders concerning transgender athletes with an update of its policies on Tuesday.