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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 5, coinciding with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
This effectively puts an end to the participation of transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. It instructs federal agencies to apply Title IX according to an individual’s sex assigned at birth.
According to The Regulatory Review, “Despite the low number of trans athletes, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation in April 2023 to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender women to participate in any activity that is designated for women or girls. Doing so, under the bill, would be a violation of Title IX.”
The order also authorizes the Department of Education to penalize schools that allow transgender athletes to compete, which could result in an effect on their federal funding, according to an article from The Associated Press.
Additionally, the order adds pressure to the International Olympic Committee to exclude transgender athletes from participation in the 2028 Summer Olympics, which are set to be in Los Angeles, CA.
The NCAA may begin to see changes because of the executive order within college athletics.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin spoke with the NCAA president Charlie Baker in a collegiate sport hearing in December and asked him how many transgender athletes are currently participating in intercollegiate athletics.
Baker responded that he was aware of less than 10 transgender athletes participating in intercollegiate athletics, encompassing more than 1,000 universities and colleges nationally, according to an article from The Hill.
Currently, NCAA policy allows transgender women to compete in women’s sports under specific hormone regulations.
However, with the executive order being enforced at a federal level, the NCAA will begin to face pressure similar to the ICC to revise its policies to align with the government’s interpretation of Title IX, according to an article from The New York Times.
Trump made a campaign promise regarding transgender athletes in women’s sports, according to CNN, and today he completed that promise.