UMass Lowell Athletics

At the UMass Lowell Department of Athletics, we believe sports have a role to play in setting examples of positivity, respect, and advancing toward a common goal, regardless of background, culture, or beliefs. The Department of Athletics welcomes and celebrate students, coaches , staff and spectators of all races and ethnicities, sexes, religious, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and disabilities. The Department of Athletics strives to ensure fairness and equity in treatment and participation for student-athletes, and coaches, including those who identify as transgender.

A transgender student-athlete will be allowed to participate in any varsity sport activity so long as that athlete’s use of hormone therapy, if any, is consistent with the NCAA existing policies on banned substances. A transgender student-athlete will be allowed to participate in varsity sports activities under the following conditions:
 
Policy for transgender student-athletes undergoing hormonal treatment for gender transition:

• A transgender male (FTM) -athlete who has received a medical exception for, and is being treated with, testosterone for purposes of NCAA competition may compete on a men’s team, but is no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team without changing that team status to a mixed team. A trans female (MTF) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria and/or Transsexualism, for the purposes of NCAA competition may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment.
• A transgender female (MTF) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication, or who has undergone surgical intervention to suppress testosterone production, for gender transition, may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed-team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment or one-year post-surgical intervention.

 
Policy for transgender student-athletes NOT undergoing hormonal treatment for gender transition:

• Any transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatment related to gender transition may participate in sex-separated sports activities in accordance with his or her assigned birth sex.
• A trans male (FTM) student-athlete who is not taking testosterone related to gender transition may participate on a men’s or women’s team.
• A trans female (MTF) transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatments related to gender transition may not compete on a women’s team.

For more information, please visit the NCAA Inclusion Transgender Student-Athletes Handbook.

Athletics Contacts:
Sandra Roecker | Sandra_Roecker@uml.edu
Ruben Sanca | Ruben_Sanca@uml.edu