Donald Trump, president of the United States, signed an executive order on Wednesday to keep men out of women’s sports, to a measure destined to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and righteous sports “, according to the order.
“With this executive order, the war against women’s sports is over,” said Trump while, surrounded by young female athletes, signed the order entitled “Keep men out of women’s sports”.
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“Under the Trump administration we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes and we will not allow men to hit, be hurt and deceive our women and girls,” Trump continued. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women.”
The order annuls the financing of educational programs “that deprive women and girls of fair sports opportunities, which gives rise to the endangered, humiliation and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
In recent years, an increasing number of women and girls have been harmed by the inclusion of men in women’s sports. For example, Payton McNabb was 17 when It was partially paralyzed After a biologically masculine athlete nailed a volleyball ball on his face. McNabb has brain damage and paralysis on the right side and has difficulty walking without falling.
In recent years, women have begun to demonstrate against men competing in exclusive sports for women. For example, The Riley Gaines swimmer And more than a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the National University Athletics Association (NCAA) last year, claiming that allowing men to compete in female competences denies women the promised protections in Virtue of the Title IX of the Law of Education amendments of 1972.
The executive order is based on title IX, which prohibits discrimination for sex reasons in schools and was designed to protect women’s rights in higher education. The order indicates that, according to Title IX, “educational institutions that receive federal funds cannot deny women equal opportunities to participate in sports.”
Federal financing will be withdrawn to all schools that do not comply.
“If you allow men to seize female sports teams or invade your locker room, you will be investigated for violations of title IX and you will put your federal financing at risk,” Trump said. “There will be no federal financing.”
The order is designed to “defend the security of athletes, protect competitive integrity and comply Trump
The order also focuses on the Olympic Games, which will be held in Italy in 2026 and Los Angeles in 2028.
The Summer Olympic Games last year in France were plagued with controversies about the requirements for participation in women’s sports when an Algerian boxer with male chromosomes defeated an Italian boxer in an Olympic boxing combat after advising a devastating blow to the face in a brief fight of 46 seconds.
The order instructs the Secretary of State to “use all appropriate and available measures to ensure that the International Olympic Committee modifies the rules that govern Olympic sporting events to promote equity, security and the best interests of female athletes, guaranteeing that eligibility to participate in female sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone ”.
The order follows the executive order of Trump of January 20 “defend women from the extremism of gender ideology and restore biological truth in the federal government”, which affirmed that the federal government recognizes two sexes, male and female, and that those sexs are immutable and rooted in reality. In another executive order, Trump restricted surgeries and transgender treatments for minors.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Kate Quiñones
Kate Quiñones is a Catholic News Agency and Member of College Fix. It has publications on the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register and Catholicvote. He graduated from Hillsdale College. Live in Colorado with her husband.