Top Arizona lawmaker spotlights 'adorable moment' as Trump signed women's sports executive order

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona’s Senate president, Republican Sen. Warren Petersen, spoke to Fox News Digital aft attending President Donald Trump's signing of the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order, which Petersen called an "incredible" infinitesimal for pistillate athletes nationwide.

"I deliberation the interaction is huge," Petersen told Fox News Digital soon aft witnessing Trump motion the highly anticipated enforcement bid to support biologic males retired of women’s sports, fulfilling 1 of his astir salient run promises.

"We present person a multi-pronged attack to making definite that lone girls play successful girls sports and boys cannot play successful girls sports," Petersen said. "We've passed laws to bash this. We've been litigating successful the courts, and present we person the enforcement subdivision issuing an enforcement bid saying that the mode they're interpreting Title IX is conscionable boys and girls. Boys are boys and girls are girls. And if you interruption this title, if you let boys to play successful girls sports, past you're going to suffer national funding, and you're going to beryllium investigated. I deliberation it's large news."

Citing caller polling, Petersen pointed retired that 70% of Americans "want to spot girls' sports protected."

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Sen. Warren Petersen, right, spoke to Fox News Digital astir his acquisition astatine President Donald Trump's enforcement bid signing connected Wednesday. (Getty Images)

"I deliberation this is simply a cleanable illustration of wherefore you're seeing Democrats with the 31% support rating," Petersen said. "I deliberation this is simply a cleanable illustration of what you saw successful Arizona, that we accrued our majorities, and we won virtually each of our competitory races. So I'm excited. I mean, President Trump is making miss sports large again and that's bully for America. That's bully for American girls. And girls tin present prosecute their dreams. It has been perfectly ridiculous that you've had girls enactment their full lives, acceptable goals, enactment hard lone for immoderate lad to travel on and snatch their dreams distant from them. In sports, it's truly been unthinkable that we person allowed this to hap to immoderate of our girls and immoderate of the women."

Petersen, who posted a photograph astatine the lawsuit with erstwhile NCAA swimmer and girls sports activistic Riley Gaines, spoke to Fox News Digital astir the "disconnect" betwixt the mean American elector and Democrat politicians connected the contented of girls' sports.

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President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid barring transgender pistillate athletes from competing successful women's oregon girls' sporting events, successful the East Room of the White House connected Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"They're wholly retired of interaction with their voters," Petersen said. "They person this truly loud, tiny faction that's well-funded and well-organized, but it is by acold retired of interaction with what the immense bulk of Americans believe. And rather frankly, it's retired of interaction with logic and science. The biggest gaslight that we person had to woody with implicit the past respective years are the Democrats trying to person the remainder of America that boys are girls. I mean, that is full lunacy, wholly insane. It flies successful the look of conscionable communal logic and the voters sent a connection large and wide that they're not going to person it."

As Trump was signing the enforcement order, dozens of young pistillate athletes who were successful the assemblage walked up to the array and surrounded Trump aft helium invited them implicit successful a infinitesimal that Petersen called "incredible."

"I deliberation it was conscionable a feeling of relief, I can't judge this conflict is over," Petersen told Fox News Digital. "The boys playing successful girls sports, you know, stolen titles from our girls and women. That clip is over. And I thought it was truly an adorable moment. We're you're conscionable highly grateful for this president."

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President Donald Trump waves aft signing an enforcement bid barring transgender pistillate athletes from competing successful women's oregon girls' sporting events, successful the East Room of the White House connected Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"I deliberation this communal consciousness determination that he's making is just, you know, the crushed wherefore his his polling is precise precocious close now. And, you know, radical are conscionable truthful sick of politicians making promises saying they're going to bash things…and cipher tin accidental that Trump is not fulfilling his promises due to the fact that not lone is Trump fulfilling his promises, but he's doing it astatine a breakneck speed."

Petersen, who has filed paperwork to tally for attorney general successful Arizona, told Fox News Digital that helium volition proceed to combat for the "right side" of this contented successful his location state.

"I'm the pb suspect successful a lawsuit to support the Save Women's Sports Act successful Arizona," Petersen explained.  

"It's sitting astatine the Supreme Court close now. We're going to spot that proceedings each the mode through. We person an lawyer wide who's wholly retired of interaction with the remainder of the Democrats. She wouldn't support the law. She thought it was good for boys to play successful miss sports. So I americium defending that law. It's successful the Supreme Court. We are going to spot that each the mode through."