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US Schools Face Funding Cuts Under Trump’s Ban On Transgender Athletes In Women’s Sports
US President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (5 February) signed an executive order seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, marking a significant policy move since his return to office.
"With this executive order the war on women's sports is over," Trump said before he signed the order at the White House, news agency AFP reported.
He was joined by dozens of children and female athletes during the signing of the executive order.
Several top Republicans, including US House Speaker Mike Johnson and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, attended the signing ceremony.
"We will defend the proud tradition of female athletes, and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls. From now on, women sports will be only for women," Trump added.
"It is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy," the executive order said.
Trump announced plans to push the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to revise its policies on transgender athletes before the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
The president stated that he had directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to communicate to the IOC that the US wants "everything having to do with the Olympics and and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject" to be changed.
Trump further noted that he had instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reject visa applications from "men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes to try and get into the Games."
