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Transgender Ban Executive Order ‘keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports’ Is About To Be Signed By Trump

Published on February 4, 2025

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday banning men from women’s sports.

One of Trump’s most well-liked rallying points throughout the 2024 presidential campaign was the pledge.

Trump frequently criticized Democratic contender Kamala Harris for her commitment to trans rights, and Republicans were effective in using the issue to win over voters.

Concerns about women’s loss of possibilities due to biological men participating in their sports were voiced by a large number of college students and their parents.

Additionally, according to a United Nations report from the previous year, biological males have won around 900 medals in women’s sports.

According to the research, “more than 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports” as of March 30, 2024.

“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem wrote.

Expanding Title IX, a 1972 legislation that forbids discrimination based on sex in education, to also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation was one of the ways the Biden administration aimed to increase safeguards for LGBTQ+ students.

The expansion, according to Republicans, was a pretext to permit transgender student-athletes to compete on females’ teams. The White House maintained that sports were exempt from the new Title IX law.

However, the Biden amendment was overturned by a federal judge last month after being challenged in court by a number of states.

When Trump started using the issue to attack Harris, who lost the 2024 presidential election, Biden put off his plans to create a new rule expressly pertaining to transgender sports.

President Trump has issued numerous executive orders pertaining to gender identity since assuming office.

He signed an executive order on his first day of office declaring that only the male and female sexes will be recognized by the federal government.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio banned passport applications that use a gender-neutral marker, like “X,” as part of that directive.

In order to let nonbinary, intersex, or gender nonconforming individuals to utilize an X designation instead of male or female, Biden modified the passport application process.

Additionally, Trump has directed the elimination of any programs that advance “gender ideology” and terminated federal diversity, gender, and equality projects.

Additionally, he mandated that federal workers take their pronouns out of their email signatures.

Additionally, the president issued an executive order that limited gender care for those under the age of 19.

He urged the secretary of Health and Human Services to “take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” and said that federal funding for such care would cease.

According to the ruling, it was referring to surgical procedures, drugs like estrogen or testosterone, and puberty blockers.

It is anticipated that many of Trump’s directives would face legal challenges.

The future of women’s athletics has been the subject of increasing controversy and discussion in recent years, particularly when swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 championship in 2022.

The 39th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day occurs on Wednesday.