President Trump signs No Men In Women’s Sports Executive Order. (Image: Getty)
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
Titled ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’, the new executive order, which mandates immediate enforcement, was signed on Wednesday.
The order imposes stricter regulations on sports and gender policy including banning transgender athletes from participating in female sports categories.
Mr Trump said on Wednesday: “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”
He has also directed the Department of Homeland Security to deny visas to transgender athletes wishing to compete in the 2028 LA Olympics.
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President Trump signed the order surrounded by young women and girls. (Image: Getty)
This follows Mr Trump’s heavy criticism of the International Olympic Committee for allowing two boxers who allegedly failed sex tests to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The order is part of the president’s wider war on woke. Before signing the order, Mr Trump said: “From now on, women’s sports will only be for women. We’ve got the woke lunacy out of our military, and now we’re getting it out of women’s sports.”
The president added: “My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”
The signing of the order coincided with America’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Schools will now be penalised by the Department of Education for allowing transgender athletes to compete under the new rules, with any school found in violation of this to lose its federal funding.
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Mr Trump said “the war on women’s sports is over’ (Image: Getty)
The president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association told a Senate panel in December, before the signing, that the order would only affect a small number of athletes.
He said he was aware of fewer than 10 trans athletes among 520,000 competing at 1,100 member schools.
Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports follows an order signed on President Trump’s first day in office, which called for the federal Government to define sex as only male or female – he asked for this to be reflected on all official documents such as passports.
Following this, an executive order signed last week saw the prohibition of gender transition for people under the age of 19.