United States President Donald Trump has signed an govt order to ban transgender athletes from collaborating in girls’s sports activities.
“Any longer, girls’s sports activities might be just for girls. With this govt order, the battle on girls’s sports activities is over,” Trump mentioned on Wednesday earlier than he signed the order on the White Home, surrounded by dozens of kids and feminine athletes.
High Republicans together with US Home Speaker Mike Johnson and firebrand Congresswoman, Marjorie Inexperienced, have been amongst these within the viewers to look at the signing ceremony.
“We are going to defend the proud custom of feminine athletes, and we won’t enable males to beat up, injure and cheat our girls and our ladies,” Trump added to applause and cheers.
Trump’s order permits US authorities companies to disclaim funds to varsities that will allow transgender athletes to compete on girls’s groups.
“In case you let males take over girls’s sports activities groups or invade your locker rooms, you can be investigated, and danger your federal funding,” Trump mentioned.
Trump additionally mentioned he would now push the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to alter its guidelines on transgender athletes earlier than the 2028 Los Angeles video games.
He mentioned he had ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “make it clear” to the IOC that “we wish them to alter every little thing having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this ridiculous topic.”
Trump added that he had directed Homeland Safety chief Kristi Noem to disclaim visa purposes “made by males trying to fraudulently enter the USA whereas figuring out themselves as girls athletes to try to get into the Video games.”
