Trump Has a Funny Way of Protecting Women’s Sports

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Trump Has a Funny Way of Protecting Women's Sports

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Opinion by Jemele Hill (4 March 2025)

Donald Trump has loudly portrayed himself as the protector of female athletes. So why is his administration preventing them from getting paid as much as their male counterparts?

... Title IX, the federal law that requires colleges to provide equal per-player funding for men's and women's sports, does not apply to name, image, and likeness payments paid directly to athletes from colleges and universities. That policy, which reverses a position adopted by the Biden administration, will cut collegiate women athletes off from a huge new source of funding set to come into play this year... a $2.8 billion class-action settlement that... will finally allow athletes to be receive name, image, and likeness payments from their school rather than through outside NIL collectives...

The schools that choose to opt in to the settlement are expected to have a salary cap of up to $20.5 million each to distribute to players. Under the guidance released during the final days of the Biden administration, they would have had to distribute that money between male and female athletes in proportion to their participation rates. Now, under Trump, that money is all but guaranteed to flow overwhelmingly to male athletes, mostly football and basketball players.

Shortly after taking office, he followed through on his campaign promises by signing an executive order banning trans women and girls from competing in sports. The White House touted the order as "ensuring equal opportunities for women in sports."