(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 against her and violated her Title IX rights in ousting her from the team in February, after the NCAA issued a policy barring transgender women from participating in women’s college sports in response to an executive order from President Trump.

Parts’s lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, says the NCAA policy is “bigoted” and

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