Walz's home state joins California in ignoring Trump's executive order to ban transgenders from girls sports

The Minnesota State High School League announced Thursday it volition proceed to let transgender athletes to vie against girls contempt President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to prohibition them from doing so.

Trump connected Wednesday signed the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order, fulfilling 1 of his large run promises of keeping biologic men retired of girls and women’s sports.

The Minnesota enactment said successful an email to subordinate schools that information by, and eligibility of, transgender athletes is controlled by the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which includes protections for LGBTQ+ people, and the Minnesota Constitution.

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

"The Minnesota State High School League, akin to different younker sports organizations, is taxable to authorities anti-discrimination laws, which prohibit favoritism based connected sex identity," the enactment said successful a statement. "Therefore, students successful Minnesota are allowed to enactment accordant with their sex identity."

Minnesota joins California successful ignoring Trump's enforcement order. The authorities is governed by Tim Walz, who was Kamala Harris' moving mate for the 2024 election; the Democrats won the state.

The authorities was location to a Supreme Court lawsuit wherever a transgender powerlifter was continuing the combat to vie against biologic women.

Trump signed the enforcement bid connected National Girls and Women successful Sports Day, which celebrates pistillate athletes successful women’s sports and those committed to providing adjacent entree to sports for each females.

President Donald Trump signs the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement bid successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2025.  (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

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Prior to Trump signing the bid Wednesday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said portion of the information down Trump's enforcement bid would beryllium to make a "pressure campaign" for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and NCAA to travel and forestall transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports. 

In effect to Trump's order, the NCAA changed its policy, successful spot since 2010, to disallow transgender athletes from competing against women, requiring them to vie based connected their commencement gender.

During Trump's ceremonial astatine the White House to motion the enforcement order, helium announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem volition prohibit immoderate transgender athletes attempting to vie arsenic women from entering the state for the Olympics successful 2028. 

The United Nations released survey findings saying astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of winning medals due to the fact that they mislaid to transgender athletes.

Save Women’s Sports advisor Beth Stelzer holds a property league extracurricular the NCAA women's swimming and diving title astatine Georgia Tech successful Atlanta March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA Today Sports)

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The study, "Violence against women and girls successful sports," said much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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