Trump signs 'No Men in Women's Sports' executive order
2025-02-06
Category: sports

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order, fulfilling one of his major campaign promises of keeping biological men out of girls and women’s sports. Trump signed the executive order on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates female athletes in women’s sports and those who are committed to providing equal access to sports for all females. SIGN UP FOR TUBI AND STREAM SUPER BOWL LIX FOR FREE  "This doesn't have to be long. It's all about common sense," Trump said before signing the order, adding that "women's sports will be only for women." Trump declared, "The war on women's sports is over." Trump was joined in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., by Independent Women ambassadors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens. Gaines, who hosts OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast, was among the champions of fairness in women's sports after sharing her experience in the 2022 NCAA Championships with Lia Thomas. Mark Trammel, the executive director at the Center for American Liberty, weighed in on Trump’s executive order. "President Trump’s executive order is a major victory for women and girls, reaffirming the fundamental truth that fairness in sports depends on biological reality," Trammel said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "This action protects female athletes from being sidelined by policies that erase sex-based distinctions, ensuring that hard-earned equal opportunities remain intact.&nbsp; "While this order is a crucial step forward, lasting protections require Congress to act and enshrine these safeguards into law. The Biden Administration tried to dismantle Title IX, redefining sex to erase protections for women and girls in sports — this order rights that wrong and restores fairness and common sense." White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing before Trump signed the executive order that it "upholds the promise of Title IX." "President Trump pledged to restore common sense to our country and he’s continuing to deliver on that with an executive order that he will sign later today," she added. "The president will be signing an executive order, keeping men out of women’s sports to defend the safety of athletes, protect competitive integrity and uphold the promise of Title IX. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM  "This common-sense action from President Trump ends the disgusting betrayal of women and girls by the previous administration, who for years catered to radical activists who wanted biological males to be treated as women in workplaces, showers, competitive sports, prisons and even rape shelters. Gender ideology insanity is over." Leavitt also called on Senate lawmakers to pass the Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act, which the House passed last month. The bill would ban biological males from participating on girls’ school sports teams. The bill would amend federal law to specify that student athletes must participate in school sports teams that coincide with their gender at birth.  CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "It’s incredibly important Congress immediately acts on this priority," Leavitt added. "I think the president is really setting the tone, making this a very immediate priority for this administration, just as he promised to do on the campaign trail." Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.