President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, banning males (transgender women) from competing against females in sports.
The order says the United States opposes “male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
Eighty percent of Americans do not want males to play against females in sports. After President Trump took office, he aligned federal policy with common sense and what Americans demanded for girls and women in sports.
Trump said, “My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter women,” he said. “It’s going to end and nobody’s gonna be able to do a damn thing about it.”
“The war on women’s sports is over,” he said. “With my action this afternoon, we are putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.”
Males will be banned from female sports on the field of play and in locker rooms. Female athletes will no longer have to endure being watched by men in the locker room or see intact males, or any males at all, changing next to them.
Trump’s order requires the Secretary of Education to prioritize “Title IX enforcement actions against educational institutions that deny female students an equal opportunity to participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them, in the women’s category, to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.”
Before any action by the Secretary could even take place, the NCAA acted saying they “will take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration.”
One has to believe that the NCAA breathed a sigh of relief. They have been under fire for several years under the Biden-Harris Administration for allowing males to compete against females taking away awards and opportunities from female athletes and causing serious physical harm to others. It seems likely that the NCAA is happy that the President took the leadership on this issue out of their hands.
Fairness in competition, safety, and the basic truth of biologic reality are the key factors. All of these things are grounded in basic common sense.
Riley Gaines, NCAA swimmer turned advocate for women and girls in sports after she was forced to share a locker room and compete against male athlete, Lia Thomas.
"To see President Trump’s decisive action today . . . it was a campaign promise of his, issue number 17 on his platform: No men in women sports," Gaines said. "I can't tell you what that means to me. Three years does not seem like a long time, but I feel vindicated, and I feel this overwhelming feeling of gratitude.
Foes of this action make the false claim that this is discriminatory against individuals who claim they are transgender by denying them the opportunity to compete in sports. Transgender people can compete in sports in the sex category they were born with no matter how they may outwardly they may lead their life outside of the playing field. As long as they compete in the sex category aligned with their biological sex, no one is making any other claims or requirements concerning the lifestyle they may choose.