The National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors voted Thursday to bar male-born students from women’s sports, retreating on transgender inclusion after years of pushback just one day after President Trump’s executive order on female scholastic sports.

NCAA President Charlie Baker said the updated transgender-participation policy limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes “assigned female at birth only,” although it allows male-born students to practice with women’s teams.

“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,” Mr. Baker said in a statement. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”

The vote came the day after Mr. Trump signed the Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports executive order, which prohibits biological males from competing on girls’ and women’s teams in K-12 and collegiate athletics.

The NCAA policy takes effect immediately and applies to all athletes, including transgender students cleared to compete in women’s sports under the previous policy.

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