Trump Executive Order tries to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports: NPR

President Trump signed the Executive Order “No Men Mans in Women’s Sports” in the Ostzimmer of the White House on Wednesday. The order prohibits transgender women to participate in women’s sport.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that tries to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.

“With this implementation regulation, the war against women’s sports is over,” he said on Wednesday in an signing ceremony in the Ostzimmer of the White House.

Trump announced the order when dozens of women and girls were behind him.

“If you take over men about the takeover of women’s sports teams or let them enter their changing rooms, they will be examined for violations of title IX and risk their federal financing” financing.

The order calls on the government to “revoke all the means of educational programs that deprive women and girls from fair sporting opportunities” and “Title IX -Enforcement measures before the implementation of Title IX” against schools that enable transgender women and girls, to participate in women’s sports.

Holding transgender women from women’s sports at all levels was an essential part of Trump’s presidential campaign. The promise regularly pulled some of Trump’s loudest cheers on his rallies.

Trump and other opponents to allow transgender women to take part in women’s sports argue that they have an unfair advantage and claim that they are a threat to cisgender athletes.

Opponents of the bans say that disinformation exceeds the scope of the question of transgender athletes in girls sports. They claim that Trans -Athletes form a tiny minority of all athletes and that there is a great variation of sporting skills.

Public support for the order can be broader than Support for Trump himself. The administration pointed out to A 2023 Gallup survey Show that almost 7 out of 10 Americans believe that “transgender athletes may only be approved” in teams that meet their gender assigned at birth.

The Executive Ordinance focuses on title IX, a federal law that prohibits gender discrimination against schools and school activities. The passage led to a significant increase in girls and women who took part in school -sponsored sports. As part of the bidges, the regulations related to the title IX were expanded to expand discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. A federal judge last month overturned These changes.

Schools mainly receive funds from state and local sources. Federal funding usually makes up less than 10% of public school revenue. According to state statistics.

The largest source for the financing of federal education is known as title I that goes to schools that serve a large number of students with low incomes.

The White House did not respond to NPR issues as to which federal finance flows would hold back the management of schools that violate the new order. It was also not said how the order would be enforced against schools that these funds did not receive.

Trump’s command does not expressly mention the word “transgender”, but at the signing ceremony he said that “the radical left has carried out a comprehensive campaign in recent years to delete the concept of biological sex and to replace it with a militant transgender ideology . “

Nevertheless, the White House tries to distance itself from the idea that the ordering of transgender athletes from doing sports.

“I know that there will be stories that say that this has to do with the ban on transgender sports or something. And that has nothing to do with it,” said an official of the White House on the condition of the Anonymity spoke morning call.

“There is a complete openness to how they would manage a situation, whether it is a co-ed category, whether men should also be more open and ready to have people in their teams who may not look like that You may not be how you could dress, “the officer continued. “But the load cannot always fall on women.”

Transgender are those who do not identify with the gender they were assigned to at birth. Dress is not part of the definition.

Trump has signed several executive regulations that curb the rights of transgender and non -bobage people. One calls for an end to federal financing of what the white house describes “gender -specific ideology”. A term that the administration said includes the idea that gender identity can be separated from biological sex.

Another Try to remove “Gender ideology” of K-12 schools and, like the recent order, threatens to promote “gender-specific ideology”. The president has it too moved to Ban Transgender people serve from the military.