Saxon Pride

ALFRED UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

- Mental Health Conditioning (Link Coming Soon)
- Wellness Center Services
- Saxon Inclusion Page
- Chosen Name Process
- Sexual Assault Care
- File an Incident Report
- Bias Response Team
- Alfred Food Pantry
- Red Folder from Student Wellness Center (Students in Distress)

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

- 10 Things You Can Do to Be an Ally to People who are LGBTQ+ by Straight for Equality
- A Guide to Coming Out by Accredited Schools Online
- Resources for Communities of Color by HRC
- Coming Out: Living Authentically as Black LGBTQ People by HRC
- National LGBTQ+ Scholarship Fund
- Overcoming Anti-Gay Harassment by URMC Rochester
- Out Alliance: A Champion for LGBTQ+ Life and Culture

RESOURCES FOR STAFF

- Coaches Guide by Athlete Training
- Implicit Bias Training by the Kirwan Institute of The Ohio State University
- A Guide to Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students by GLSEN
- Online Safe Space Training by Campus Pride
- Safe Zone Project
- Supporting Queer Youth of Color by TSER

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

- Defining LGBTQ by It Takes Courage
- Intersectionality 101 by Teaching Tolerance
- An Ally’s Guide to Terminology by GLAAD
- Understanding pronouns by LGBT Life Center
- 16 Ways to be a Transgender Advocate and Ally by Campus Pride

REGIONAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL RESOURCES

- In Your State Rights Tool by Lambda Legal
- Inclusion of LGBTQ Student-Athletes & Staff in NCAA Programs
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- The Trevor Project
- PFLAG
- LGBT National Help Center
- Pride Center of WNY

NCAA RESOURCES

Transgender Student-Athlete Participation Policy

At its January 19, 2022 meeting, the NCAA Board of Governors updated the transgender student-athlete participation policy governing college sports.

The new policy aligns transgender student-athlete participation with the Olympic Movement (PDF). The resulting sport-by-sport approach preserves opportunity for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion and safety for all who compete.

Like the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the updated NCAA policy calls for transgender student-athlete participation for each sport to be determined by the policy for the national governing body of that sport. If there is no NGB policy for a sport, it would then be determined by the policy for that sport’s international federation. If there is no international federation policy, it would be determined by policy criteria (PDF) previously established by the International Olympic Committee. Sport-specific polices are subject to ongoing review and recommendation by the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports to the Board of Governors.

The policy is effective immediately, with three phases of implementation:

First Phase - 2022 Winter & Spring Championships

For participation in 2022 winter and spring championships, transgender student-athletes must provide documentation to the CSMAS within four weeks before the selections date for their championship.

The documentation must demonstrate compliance with the 2010 NCAA policy (PDF), which calls for one year of testosterone suppression treatment. It should also document a one-time serum testosterone level that falls below the maximum allowable level for the sport in which the student-athlete is competing within four weeks of championship selections for that sport. This means that student-athletes who have already fulfilled the 2010 NCAA policy need only provide one validated serum testosterone level in this time frame.

Transgender student-athletes who are participating in regular season competition (including conference championships) for the remainder of academic year 2022 remain subject to the 2010 NCAA policy only.

Second Phase - 2022-23 and 2023-24 Regular Season & Championships

Beginning Aug. 1, 2022, participation in NCAA sports requires transgender student-athletes to provide documentation that meets the above criteria for the 2010 NCAA policy (PDF), plus meet the sport standard for documented testosterone levels at the beginning of their competition season and again six months later. This means that student-athletes who have already been competing do not need to demonstrate the newly adapted sport-specific testosterone levels for the entire prior year if they are not available.

For participation in NCAA championships, transgender athletes must additionally provide documentation of testosterone levels to the CSMAS with laboratory work completed within four weeks of the championship selections.

Third Phase - 2024-25 Full Implementation

Beginning Aug. 1, 2024, participation in NCAA sports requires transgender student-athletes to provide documentation that meets the sport-specific standard submitted twice annually (once at the beginning of competition season and the second six months following) for one year. This process will continue annually for eligible student-athletes.