Dallas, Texas businessman Randall (Randy) Blum, is president and CEO of Randall Blum Insight Consulting, where he provides Fortune 500 companies with strategies for helping millennial employees become more productive. Outside of work, Randy Blum enjoys sports, including NCAA sporting events.
Recently, the NCAA held a summit focused on the inclusion of athletes who do not identify as male or female or as the gender of their birth. The NCAA Gender Identity and Student-Athlete Participation Summit, held over Zoom, left many who participated with changed perspectives. The focus of this discussion involved the scarce research and data related to non-binary (students with multiple sexual orientations) and transgender student-athletes.
Participants cited the humanity of including these populations in the overall conversation of collegiate sports. Comments from non-binary and transgender students touched on the barriers and obstacles they faced as a part of participating in college sports.
The Summit reinforced the need for data and research to determine how inclusive college sports is. While only data, it gives the organization insight into the experiences many students who fall into these categories might have.
