The Human Rights Campaign joined 16 other national advocacy organizations, including GLAAD and Athlete Ally, on Thursday in calling on the NCAA to include previously existing nondiscrimination protections in the new NCAA constitution.
The latest draft of the constitution, released in November, included major changes that would give more power to individual schools and conferences, embrace the influence of name, image and likeness compensation, and shrink the Board of Governors from 21 members to nine.
But in a letter to the NCAA Board of Governors ahead of a vote to ratify the constitution, the advocacy groups wrote that the amended version removed nondiscrimination language that sought to protect women, athletes of color and LGBTQ athletes in NCAA competitions.
