Trump to sign executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing

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Story by WILL GRAVES (4 Feb 2025)

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events.

The order, which Trump is expected to sign at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive shift by the president's second administration in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and their rights.

Wednesday's order — which coincides with National Girls and Women in Sports Day — will involve how his administration will interpret Title IX, the law best known for its role in pursuing gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses.

The Associated Press reported in 2021 that in many cases, the states introducing a ban on transgender athletes could not cite instances where their participation was an issue. When Utah state legislators overrode a veto by Gov. Spencer Cox in 2022, the state had only one transgender girl playing in K-12 sports who would be affected by the ban. It did not regulate participation for transgender boys.

"This is a solution looking for a problem," Cheryl Cooky, a professor at Purdue University who studies the intersection of gender, sports, media and culture, told the AP after Trump was elected.

I kind of think this dude just likes signing stuff. Makes him feel important.

People need to understand the power of Executive Orders, and what he can and can't do with them.  He can order federal departments and administration staff to do stuff.  He can't order private citizens to do anything.  Nor can he order corporations or non-government organizations to do anything. 

So this EO is clearly outside of his jurisdiction.  It is the kind of thing that people ought to resist.  It should be challenged in court.  I am sure there are sports organizations who will be happy to comply voluntarily, but any that don't feel like complying should just go ahead and do what they want to do, because it will be overturned.

Don't hand the guy any more power than he is legally entitled to.

Quote from: KathyLauren on February 05, 2025, 06:59:09 PMSo this EO is clearly outside of his jurisdiction.  It is the kind of thing that people ought to resist.  It should be challenged in court.

Very true, and it will be.

The problem is that people don't understand that EOs only apply to agencies in the Executive Branch of government. So they comply anyway, before the orders have a chance to be challenged in court. If the sheeple would use their brains, they would know this.

But I understand why they don't. I was with them during high school civics class smoking out by the tennis courts. I didn't learn a thing in civics class. I learned later as an adult. Some never learn.