President Donald Trump signed an executive decree prohibiting transgender women and girls to participate in female sports on Wednesday. The measure, called “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order”, is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people he signed since he took office on January 20.
“The radical left led a total campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” said Trump from a white house podium, with dozens of women and girls standing Behind him. “With this decree, the war against women’s sports is over.”
Trump also gave several examples of what he described as “men claiming to be girls” and the “theft” of the victories, at some point, perpetuating the false affirmation that the Algerian boxer Imane Khelifwho faced Intense examination During his sex at the Paris Olympic Games in August, he was assigned to the birth of men.
During a call with journalists on Wednesday morning before the signing, the Officials of the White House said they expected that the titles on the executive order use the word “transgender” but that ” Has nothing to do with that. ” The order, she said, aims to protect women’s access to safe and fair athletic opportunities, and that will do so in two ways, they said.
First, officials declared that the administration will return the directives of the Biden administration on title IX, a law on civil rights which prevents discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive funding federal. As part of these guidelines, schools had to allow Trans students to access school sports teams and installations separated by sex that align with their gender identities. The order of Trump rather prohibits students who were responsible for the birth of the birth of the participation in sports of girls and women and the use of the toilets of women. The Department of Education will be responsible for investigating potential violations, and the administration “will ask for investigations,” the officials said.
Second, said the administration will work with sports guiding bodies, including the Olympic International Committee, to ensure that the directives are followed in a non -educational environment. The advice, they added, will affect American visa policies.
“If you enter the country and claim that you are a woman but that you are a man here to compete with women, we will examine this for fraud,” said one of the officials.
The moment of “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order” does not seem to be a coincidence: Wednesday is the 39th annual annual National Girls & Women In Sports Daywhich was launched in 1987 as a way to celebrate female athletes and inspire girls to participate in sports.
The question of transgender women participating in female sports was a coherent and divider subject leading to the November elections. On the campaign track – and even after winning the elections – Trump called trans women as men and is committed to “Keep men out of female sports. “”
A GALLUP survey of American adults carried out in May 2023 revealed that almost 70% of respondents said that trans athletes should only be allowed to compete that in sports teams that correspond to their birthday, compared to 62% in 2021 . Prohibit transgender students from participating in sports In accordance with their gender identity, according to the Movement Advance Project, an LGBTQ reflection group.
The former swimmer of the University of Harvard, Schuyler Bailar, who marked history in 2015 as the first openly transgender athlete to compete in a male team of division I, described the “absolutely devastating” order and “discriminatory”.
“It is, I think, a truly horrible way to invite a lot of discrimination – not only against trans people – but also against all people in the category of women, because it is a police of the body of the body of the body of women in sport. ” Said Bailar, 28 years old.
Riley Gaines, a former university swimmer who has become a frank opponent of Trans women in female sports, applauded the ban on trans sports on social networks on Tuesday and attended the signature ceremony on Wednesday.
Sheaths Written on x: “Things could have been so different. Gender madness was the final straw that brought many moderate on the side of common sense. More specifically, I believe it was the question of men in female sports. I have lived in a state of gratitude every day since November 5. Rent God. “”
A number of LGBTQ rights organizations criticized the order after Trump signed it on Wednesday. Carl Charles, a main lawyer for Lambda Legal, a defense organization for LGBTQ legal defenders, said that the order “will aim for athletes from kindergarten to 12th year and kindergarten to participate in programs of sports school sports programs For decades without any problem.
“We are dismayed, and in fact disgusted, in the insatiable appetite of this administration for fear and the incessant targeting of this most vulnerable population,” said Charles. He added that several states that have adopted restrictions on the participation of Trans athletes have faced proceedings.
The courts have Blocked state prohibitions In Arizona, Idaho, Utah and Virginie-Western. The restriction of New Hampshire was blocked against the two trans complainants who continued, and the Montana law was definitively prevented from taking effect in colleges but not the schools of kindergarten in the 12th year, according to the Advancement Project project.
Before Wednesday’s Trans Sports Order, Trump signed three others who directly target transgender people. The day of the inauguration, he signed a prescription proclaiming that the The government will only recognize two sexesmen and women, and that “these sexes cannot be modified”. He also signed orders prohibiting transgender people from serving openly in the army And restrict access to care affirmed by the sexes For trans people under 19 years old nationally.