Trump executive order on protecting women's sports draws response from NCAA

The NCAA responded to President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to support biologic men retired of women’s sports Wednesday night.

Trump signed the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful the East Room of the White House successful beforehand of pistillate athletes connected National Girls & Women successful Sports Day.

NCAA President Charlie Baker responded to the enforcement bid successful a statement, saying it provided a "clear, nationalist standard." 

Baker said the NCAA Board of Governors would reappraisal it and instrumentality steps to align the organization’s argumentation successful the coming days.

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

"The NCAA is an enactment made up of 1,100 colleges and universities successful each 50 states that collectively enroll much than 530,000 student-athletes," the connection said. "We powerfully judge that clear, accordant and azygous eligibility standards would champion service today's student-athletes alternatively of a patchwork of conflicting authorities laws and tribunal decisions. To that end, President Trump's bid provides a clear, nationalist standard.

"The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the enforcement bid and volition instrumentality indispensable steps to align NCAA argumentation successful the coming days, taxable to further guidance from the administration. The Association volition proceed to assistance foster welcoming environments connected campuses for each student-athletes. We basal acceptable to assistance schools arsenic they look for ways to enactment immoderate student-athletes affected by changes successful the policy."

Trump was joined by Independent Women ambassadors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens.

NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks during a property league celebrating the 25-year day of the NCAA moving its nationalist bureau to Indianapolis Aug. 13, 2024, astatine NCAA office successful Indianapolis. (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA Today Network)

"This doesn't person to beryllium long. It's each astir communal sense," Trump said earlier signing the order, adding that "women's sports volition beryllium lone for women. The warfare connected women's sports is over."

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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a briefing earlier Trump signed the enforcement bid that it "upholds the committedness of Title IX."

Leavitt said Trump expected the NCAA and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to comply.

"He does expect the Olympic committee and the NCAA to nary longer let men to vie successful women’s sports," she said. "I deliberation the president, with the signing of his pen, starts a precise nationalist unit run connected these organizations to bash the close happening for women and for girls.

"Again, this is an incredibly fashionable position. There person been galore notable pistillate athletes who person had the courageousness to talk retired against immoderate precise almighty institutions successful this country. They merit to person a dependable and a say. The president is bringing their dependable to the highest level of the White House. He expects these organizations to comply with this national enforcement bid helium volition beryllium signing today."

Felicia Martin, vice president of the NCAA's Eligibility Center, spoke astatine a legislature briefing successful Washington Wednesday to observe National Girls & Women successful Sports Day and suggested the NCAA Board of Governors is already discussing imaginable argumentation changes erstwhile Trump's enforcement bid goes into effect. 

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

"We cognize that this is an contented and a nationalist speech happening astir participation," she said. "The Board of Governors is close present having conversations astir what imaginable adjacent steps mightiness be, but this is perfectly 1 of those issues that is ongoing. 

"But without a nationalist modular that tin beryllium applied crossed the board, each of america are making decisions based connected what we deliberation is the champion for student-athletes and opportunities."

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Martin added that she expects much clarity connected a nationalist modular aboriginal successful the time from Trump. She besides said the Board of Governors would marque its decisions connected immoderate argumentation changes based connected the circumstantial details of the enforcement order.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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