President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday targeting the participation of transgender American athletes in sports.
The order, “No Men In Women’s Sports” bars transgender athletes at the school, college, and Olympic levels. President Trump specified that the order would include the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
"In a few moments, I’ll sign a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women’s sports. It’s about time," Trump said. "Under the Trump administration, we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes, and we will not allow men to beat up, injure, and cheat our women and our girls."
“The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” he said in remarks at the ceremony.
While the order does not immediately ban trans women and girls from sports, it threatens to “rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
This newest order follows a recent federal court ruling that ended the Biden administration’s Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide. It was ruled that the Biden-era regulations, which expanded Title IX to include protections against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, overstepped the Department of Education’s authority.
Various LGBTQ+ organizations have voiced their disappointment and condemnation of the order after the President’s actions, yet they remain hopeful in their fight for equal rights for all athletes.
In a statement, Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson said that the order "exposes young people to harassment and discrimination, emboldening people to question the gender of kids who don't fit a narrow view of how they're supposed to dress or look".
"For so many students, sports are about finding somewhere to belong," Ms Robinson added. "Not partisan policies that make life harder for them."
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