Donald Trump Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Sports with Executive Order

Donald Trump Bans Transgender Athletes: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (5 February) signed an executive order seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, marking a significant policy move since his return to office.

"With this executive order the war on women's sports is over," Trump said before he signed the order at the White House, news agency AFP reported.

The measure, called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order,” is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people he has signed since he took office Jan. 20.

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“The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him.

Trump also gave multiple examples of what he described as “men claiming to be girls” and “stealing” victories, at one point perpetuating the false claim that Algerian female boxer Imane Khelif, who faced intense scrutiny over her gender at the Paris Olympics in August, was assigned male at birth.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the order “honors the promise of Title IX” and will prompt “immediate enforcement actions” against schools and athletic organisations that deny women access to single-sex sports and locker rooms.

The order coincided with National Girls and Women in Sports Day and is the latest in a series of executive actions by the Republican president targeting transgender rights.

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The order was issued on National Girls and Women in Sports Day and is the latest in a series of executive actions by the Republican president focusing on transgender.

In his remarks on Wednesday, Trump said he has instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “make clear to the International Olympic Committees … that America categorically rejects transgender lunacy.”

And there are plans to convene state attorneys general to enforce “laws on the books protecting women’s sports” at the state level, the official said. Trump on Wednesday is expected to meet with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who in 2023 signed a state law banning trans athletes in college sports in his state.

Rubio, the official added, will be using bodies like the United Nations to promote the administration’s stance through reports on gender issues.

The executive action also calls for a review of visa policies: “If you are coming into the country and you are claiming that you are a woman, but you are a male here to compete against women, we’re going to be reviewing that for fraud,” the official said.

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