US EditionTransgender Athlete Sues NCAA, Swarthmore College for Track Team Removal
Evie Parts alleges discrimination and emotional harm after NCAA's new policy barred transgender women from women's varsity sports, with Swarthmore College enforcing the rule.
- On February 6, 2025, Evie Parts filed a federal lawsuit against the NCAA and Swarthmore College after her removal from the women’s track team.
- Following President Donald Trump’s executive order, the NCAA changed its transgender participation policy to restrict women’s sports to athletes “assigned female at birth”.
- Swarthmore administrators barred Parts from team travel, per diem, uniform, and coaching, stating federal and Pennsylvania law did not override the NCAA ban, Epps-Chiazor said.
- Swarthmore fully reinstated Parts on April 11, allowing her to compete until her May graduation, amid ongoing litigation over her removal from the women’s track team.
- Two related cases challenging state transgender sports bans will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this fall, following Schreiner's suit against Princeton University.
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Transgender athlete sues NCAA, Swarthmore College for track team removal
(The Hill) – A former Swarthmore College athlete is suing her alma mater, members of its athletic department and the NCAA after she was briefly removed from participating on the school’s women’s track and field team because she is transgender. Evie Parts, a long-distance runner who competed for Swarthmore’s women’s cross-country and track and field teams from 2023 until her graduation in 2025, claims the school and the NCAA discriminated agains…
Long distance racer Evie Parts sued NCAA and Swarthmore College for expelling her from the team "intolerantly." The athlete claims that she was illegally kicked out and only because she is transgender.wf_cms.rss.read_more
Male athlete sues Swarthmore College for not letting him run on women’s track team
Had ‘engaged in self-harm’ and wanted to kill himself A biological male sued the Philadelphia-adjacent Swarthmore College this past week for not allowing him to run on the women’s track team. Evelyn “Evie” Parts, who began hormone replacement therapy as a high school junior and is listed as “female” on his birth certificate, social security card and driver’s license, had run on Swarthmore’s… Source
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