What’s behind Trump’s ban on transgender women in US women’s sports?
What’s behind Trump’s ban on transgender women in US women’s sports?
The directive could strip federal funding from schools that allow trans women and girls to compete in women’s events.
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Published on: 07/02/2025 | 00:00:00
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The directive, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”, is the latest addition to a series of new executive actions that have shone a focus on gender debates within the US. The order instructs the Department of Justice to oversee a ban on transgender girls or women from participating in female-designated school athletics. If schools fail to adhere to the policy, they could lose federal funding. US will use “all of our authority and our ability” to enforce Trump’s order, a White House official said. Trump repeatedly brought up the issue of transgender athletes throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, pledging to tackle it on his first day in office. “We will keep men out of women’s sports. It’s over,” Trump said a day before being sworn in. Generally, the courts have ruled that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete, with judgements in their favour in Idaho, West Virgina and Arizona. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the US’s main governing body for college sports, welcomed the clarity provided by Trump’s executive order. From early on in his 2021-2025 term, Biden’s administration set out to amend Title IX. Under its proposal, schools would be prohibited from imposing blanket bans on transsexual athletes a study commissioned by the International Olympic Committee found transgender women may have lower performance in jumping, lung capacity and general cardiovascular fitness than other men. However, a 2024 study found that trans women can have disadvantages because their larger frames are now being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity, but that’s not as obvious as the advantages of simply being bigger. The International Olympic Committee revised its policies last year to give individual sports the authority to set participation criteria. At least 10 Olympic sports, including swimming, cycling and boxing, introduced restrictions for transgender athletes for the 2024 games. The US’s NCAA, for its part, has sport-specific testosterone limits. Some argue such a ban is necessary to maintain fairness in women’s sports, while others contend it unjustly discriminates against a minority community. Gender insanity was the final straw that brought a lot of moderates to the side of common sense. GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy group, accused Trump’s administration of disingenuously using the protection of women as an excuse to erode transgender rights.
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