I’m a dude- could I race for the women?

I'd advise you don't go to a school that expensive if it's that much of a burden for you lol. Also, there is an off chance pulling a stunt like that would not be worth whatever you might save. Even though the answer is no you could not do that.

Not with that approach, you couldn’t! You would need to start off with, I’m a dudette - Can I race with the other women, like me?”

Then, to many, you’d be a remarkably wonderful brave, talented and celebrated woman! Have fun and good luck!

Please do it. We need more men like the Canadian powerlifter to pull this stunt. You can save nearly $90K and break a couple collegiate records over the next two seasons. Make a complete mockery of this broken system and hopefully enough people will notice and raise enough Hell that it gets fixed. Men versus men, women versus women.

I already consider you stunning and brave

Where are the rules saying I can’t do it though. I’m pretty serious about this and if there is an actual rule saying I couldn’t, than it’s pointless to even consider it.

Also the school is actually $74,000 a year I just have some academic and FAFSA money that cut that down. It’s a really strong school and worth the cost.

If I were the women's coach, I wouldn't let you. If the school forced me to let you run, I certainly wouldn't give you any money. If the school said I had to give you money as one of the top runners on the team, I'd go find faster dudes to take your spot.

According to the resident wokes here, a woman is anyone who identifies as one.

There's your answer.

The OP does not identify as a woman. And was very specific about that.

The NCAA now uses the same transgender policies as they he USATF:

The USATF transgender policies:

Even if there weren’t any restrictions, any coach in the country would be disgusted with your offer to run for the women’s team.

This statement is false. Coaches are paid to win and often incentivized with bonuses. There will be more coaches interested in making more money and caring about the morality or anything.

OK, but the OP still isn’t eligible to compete on the women’s team. If he was, and you were the coach, would you want lowlife on your team?

True. He has a harder time because he already competed as a male but had he merely gone directly into the female division, he would have been okay. Nobody would have known or dared to call him out on his/her choice.

However you feel, bro - sis.

A woman is anytujmg a MAN says it is and if any biological women protest, you can MANSPLAIN why they're ignorant and prejudiced.

Remember #MeToo ? #MeToo !

If he decided that he was no longer a he and he was now a they, who am I to be the judge?

Why are you invalidating her lived experience? She identifies as a womxn, so she is a woman. Do better.

Obvious troll attempt, but a quick google search for NCAA rules for transgender athletes will give you your answer

ncaa.org

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

Link:www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/1/27/transgen...

At this point in time you would need to take testosterone suppressants for a minimum of one year and follow the rules for Phase 2 which reads as follows: "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, plus meet the sport standard for documented testosterone levels at three points in time: 1. Prior to any competition during the regular season; 2. Prior to the first competition in an NCAA championship event; and 3. Prior to any competition in the non-championship segment."

In order to get a doctor to prescribe you testosterone suppressants, you would also need to meet with a licensed therapist, and convince them that you do in fact have gender dysphoria. If you are in fact successful in convincing a licensed therapist that you are trans, you would then have to take your proscribed medication, which would cause you to lose muscle mass, grow breasts, and hips, which would significantly diminish your athletic performance. Based on your current times, after a year of medically transition, you would be struggling to crack 4:40 in the 1500, and 18 minutes in the 5k. See June Eastwood.

Eastwood ran a 4:50 at altitude (full indoor mile) while obviously holding back and dominated.

True. He can't get there from here. But incoming males have no problem claiming to be females from the start. Nobody will know and nobody will dare confront them.

I guess the one thing the OP could try is to complain that he wants to be on the women's team but he isn't transgender so the transgender rules don't apply.

So here is the honest answer.

OP would have to sit out the 2023-24 season while being on hormone replacement therapy.

Then at the start of the 2024-25 season, OP would be declared ineligible because the new NCAA policy would limit the trans athletes to those who started hormone therapy before puberty.

Any serious college coach knows this, and will reject OP's request.

But facts do not matter in the outrage theatre.