President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday banning biological males from competing in women’s sports.
The “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order states, “It is the policy of the United States 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.”
The executive order also explains that U.S. policy will “oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports” due to “safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
According to The Post Millennial, Trump, who signed the executive order while surrounded by both women and girl athletes in the White House on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, described the order as “common sense” and pledged that “women’s sports will be only for women” under his administration.
“With my action this afternoon, we’re 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,” Trump said. “There will be no federal funding.”
“In recent years, 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,” Trump continued. He added, “Female athletes have been forced onto the front lines, and men claiming to be girls have stolen more than 3,500 victories, that’s a lot, and invaded more than 11,000 competitions designed for women.”
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In his remarks from the White House, Trump shared examples of how left-wing activists have attempted to push transgender males into women’s sports across the United States, leading to biological males winning numerous competitions against female athletes.
“All of that ends today, because with this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said.
Prior to Trump signing the executive order at the White House, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the executive order “upholds the promise of Title IX.”
The White House press secretary described the executive order as a “common-sense action” that “ends the disgusting betrayal of women and girls by the previous administration, who for years catered to radical activists who wanted biological males to be treated as women in workplaces, showers, competitive sports, prisons and even rape shelters.” Leavitt added, “Gender ideology insanity is over.”