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Transgender runner sues NCAA and college over track ban in wake of Donald Trump's executive order

 

By Alex Raskin 

 

Daily Mail

Aug 16, 2025

 

Long-distance runner Evie Parts' lawsuit said the NCAA's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports did not have legal grounds because it's not a governmental organization

 

A distance runner has sued the NCAA and Division III Swarthmore College claiming she was removed from the track team illegally because she is transgender.

Long-distance runner Evie Parts' lawsuit said the NCAA's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports did not have legal grounds because it's not a governmental organization and therefore does not have jurisdiction over Pennsylvania state law or the Title IX federal statute.

She was removed from the team on February 6, the day the NCAA issued its new policy on transgender athletes.

Swarthmore men's and women's track coach Peter Carroll, athletic director Brad Koch and athletics officials Christina Epps-Chiazor and Valerie Gomez also were named in the lawsuit. According to the complaint, they sent Parts into 'such a depressive state that she engaged in self-harm and in one moment told a friend that she wanted to kill herself.'

'We stand by the allegations in the complaint,' said Susie Cirilli, an attorney who, along with the law firm Spector, Gadon, Rosen and Vinci, represent Parts. 'As stated in the complaint, the NCAA is a private organization that issued a bigoted policy. Swarthmore College chose to follow that policy and disregard federal and state law.'

Swarthmore did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The NCAA chose not to comment.

Long-distance runner Evie Parts' lawsuit said the NCAA's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports did not have legal grounds because it's not a governmental organization 

 

Swarthmore College has an enrollment of about 1,400 students and is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

 

A Towson, Maryland native, Parts has made honor role four times at Swathmore and was first in the 10,000 meters at the 2025 Bill Butler Invite.

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes to limit competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth. That change came a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports.

Pennsylvania's state Senate approved a bill by a 32-18 margin on May 6 to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sports at the collegiate and K-12 levels. But the state's Democratic-controlled House of Representatives isn't expected to vote on the bill.

Parts joined the Swarthmore track team in the fall 2020 before then taking off the following four winter and spring seasons. She went back to the Division III team in 2023 to compete in the indoor and outdoor track seasons and in cross country.

When the NCAA issued its ban, the lawsuit states, Parts was told by Epps-Chiazor and Gomez that she could compete with the men's team or as an unattached athlete. She would only receive medical treatment, the complaint says, if she competed on the men's team.

Also, according to the lawsuit, Carroll and his staff were not allowed to coach Parts, she could not travel with the team, was not allowed to receive per diem or food and had to pay her way into meets. Parts also couldn't wear a Swarthmore uniform.

Swarthmore 'fully reinstated' Parts on April 11, the lawsuit says, and she competed on the women's team until graduating in May. Parts won the 10,000 meters in April at the Bill Butler Invitational.