Donald Trump signs order banning all trans athletes from women's events

Donald Trump issued yet different enforcement bid this clip aiming to prohibition transgender athletes from taking portion successful women's sports including those successful the upcoming 2028 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles

Donald Trump has signed an enforcement bid banning each transgender athletes from competing successful girl's and women's sports.

Trump's order "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," aims to assistance national agencies the quality to reappraisal backing to precocious schools, universities and grassroot sporting events. "With this enforcement order, the warfare connected women's sports is over," Trump said astatine the signing ceremonial astatine the East Room of the White House.

He was surrounded by girls arsenic good arsenic lawmakers and pistillate athletes who were supportive of the ban, including swimmer Riley Gaines. White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the bid "upholds the committedness of Title IX" and volition necessitate "immediate action, including enforcement actions, against schools and diversion associations" that bash not let single-sex sports oregon single-sex locker rooms for women.

Title IX is simply a national instrumentality that prohibits favoritism connected the ground of enactment successful acquisition programmes that person national funding. Trump added: "If you fto men instrumentality implicit women's sports teams oregon invade your locker rooms, you volition beryllium investigated for violations of Title IX and hazard your national funding."

He added the bid would screen the 2028 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles and would contradict visas for transgender athletes hoping to instrumentality portion successful the games. White House officials person said the determination is fashionable with Americans and argued the bid would guarantee "fairness" successful women's sports.

According to a 2023 Gallup poll, 69 per cent of respondents judge transgender athletes should beryllium capable to play connected teams that lucifer the sex they were assigned to astatine birth. Only 29 per cent of respondents said transgender athletes should beryllium capable to play connected teams that lucifer their sex identity.

Enforcing the bid volition beryllium a precedence for the Education Department arsenic it works to penalise schools that let transgender athletes to compete. The section has already opened an enquiry into nationalist schools successful Denver, Colorado, that replaced a girl's bath with an all-gender 1 contempt leaving different exclusive to boys.

But Human Rights Campaign, a US-based LGBTQ advocacy group, president Kelley Robinson said the bid "exposes young radical to harassment and discrimination." She added the bid would besides effect successful "emboldening radical to question the sex of kids who don't acceptable a constrictive presumption of however they're expected to formal oregon look."

According to a 2022 Williams Institute study, lone 1.6 cardinal radical (or 0.6 per cent) of radical successful the US aged 13 and implicit place arsenic transgender. This besides includes 1.4 per cent of younker aged betwixt 13 and 17.

The enforcement bid is 1 of respective signed by Trump since helium took bureau past month. Many of his orders person been challenged successful the courts.