To be honest.... a male wouldn't even have to pretend to be a female in order to play women's softball in the NCAA.
Reason being the NCAA doesn't offer.mens softball. William Thomas has to pretend to be a girl so he can race the girls because there are both boys and girls divisions of swimming in the NCAA. Sarah Fuller didn't have to pretend to be a boy to play football because the NCAA didn't offer a woman's football division so football is open to any gender that made the team. Here is an article about 6 girls playing college baseball,
https://goodsport.me/weadmire/a-game-of ... e-baseball
none of them are.pretending to be boys,.and don't have to because the NCAA does not have a women's college baseball division so the teams must be open to any sex who wants to play.
So the same thing, then, must be true for males who want to play college softball.
If I'm looking to beat oklahoma, I'm not.going to recruit the same Southern California girls that Patty Gasso is going to recruit,.I'm going to go to.Australia and recruit.18 year old boys who are bigger, faster, stronger than the girls.that OU is recruiting and can throw the ball much harder. I watched a video of 16 year old.boys in Australia pitching in the high 70 MPH range and they're back at a farther distance. Put them at 43 feet vs girls and they're unhitable.
The precedent has been set.