President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports, sparking intense reaction on both sides of an ongoing debate.
The signing ceremony, scheduled to occur on National Women and Girls in Sports Day, took place at the White House Wednesday.
“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 during the ceremony. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”
NCAA President Charlie Baker said that the Trump administration’s order would provide a “clear, national standard,” and that the governing body in charge of major collegiate sports in the U.S. would amend its policies to follow the new rules.
“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard,” Baker said in a statement.
While the issue of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports was a frequent refrain of the Trump campaign during the 2024 election, participation rates are extremely low. In testimony on Capitol Hill in December, Baker told the Senate that of more than 500,000 athletes at the NCAA level, he was aware of fewer than 10 that identify as trans, according to The Hill.
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