President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to stop transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports unless they were assigned female at birth, promising to deny federal funding to high schools and colleges that do not comply.
“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said from the East Room of the White House.
The order follows one Trump signed on Jan. 20 — the first day of his second term in the White House — ordering the federal government to define sex as only male or female and to change federal policies and government-issued IDs to reflect that. Trump, along with other conservative politicians, have often hit on transgender athletes competing in women’s sports as an election-cycle issue. And more than two dozen states have passed laws banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports at the high school and youth levels.
Trump, who signed the order on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, also took aim at the International Olympic Committee, saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make the White House’s stance “as clear as anybody can make it.”
“We want them to change everything having to do with the Olympics,” Trump said.
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