The Department of Education has taken another step in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles,

The NCAA, the governing body for US collegiate sports, has issued a new policy that limits competition in women's sports to only student-athletes assigned female at birth. Announced on Thursday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association said its policy applied to all athletes and was effective immediately.

The U.S. Department of Education urged sports groups Tuesday to restore female athletes' records and awards that were "wrongfully erased" by biological males, who "unfairly competed" in women's sports.