Trump fulfilled his promise to order a ban on trans female athletes. The court battle has arrived
Candidate Donald Trump promised to “remove trans insanity from our school” and “remove men from women’s sports.”
President Donald Trump has little time to deliver on his promise to address topics that seem to resonate among the cross-party. Trump issued an executive order on the day of his second term to “restore biological truth to the federal government” and signed another campaign on Wednesday called “The Movement to Separate Men from Women.”
The federal government now has a wide latitude between multiple agencies to punish federally funded entities that “deprive women and girls of fair opportunities for sports.”
Trump declared: “The war on the women’s movement is over.”
Probably not. Legal challenges such as legal challenges targeting other executive orders against transgender people, the Trump administration sued Maine for not complying with the government’s efforts to ban trans athletes in girls and women’s sports.
What is an executive order?
The biggest takeaway is that the Trump administration has authorized the federal government to take positive steps to pursue entities, whether it is schools or sports associations, now a state-not complying with states. federal funds and grants that may be granted to education programs.
Non-compliance with the threshold: Any entity that denies “female students have equal opportunity to participate in sports and sports events, requiring them to fall into the women’s category, compete with men or oppose or oppose or not wear clothes.”
The Department of Education announced that the order was signed less than 24 hours after the order was signed, and the order was investigating the intercollegiate athletic associations in San Jose State, the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, all involving IX headline violations to allow them to allow trans athletes to compete. It also investigated Maine, referring the case to the Justice Department last week.
Identify “Gender” vs. “Gender”, how will this affect Title IX?
Each government has the authority to publish its own interpretation of landmark legislation to ensure gender equality in track and field and prevent sexual harassment on campus.
Given the impetus of the recent president’s viewing title IX, it created a whiplash effect.
Joe Biden signed an executive order on the first day of the office that interprets gender as “gender identity,” a move that protects trans athletes if they want to participate in a sport that matches gender identity rather than the gender assigned at birth.
However, Title IX regulations took more than three years to illustrate this. When they encountered them, they lacked specific movements and were put on hold by the court.
Trump’s order clearly states that gender refers to “an unchanging biological classification as male or female.” “Sex” is not a synonym, nor does it include the concept of “gender identity”. The order added: “Gender remains unchanged and is based on basic and undisputed reality.”
The decision marks a significant shift in the way Title IX is viewed, more explicitly enforcing it.
How many transgender athletes will be affected?
This number is difficult to fix.
For example, the NCAA did not track data on 544,000 trans athletes currently on 19,000 teams across the country, although NCAA President Charlie Baker testified in Congress in December that he knew he knew less than 10 active NCAA athletes who were considered Transgender.
A 2019 high school students survey of the Gay, Lesbian and Direct Education Network (GLSEN) noted that only 5% of respondents said they participated in a campaign that aligns with gender identity. The Williams Institute’s 2022 report estimates that about 300,000 high school students (ages 13-17) have been identified as transgender. How many of these young people participate in sports is unknown, but this may be a small part.
Do the order have actual teeth?
Title IX’s coverage goes well beyond the involvement of trans athletes. Violations are believed to be common.
The Women’s Sports Foundation noted in a 2022 report that “gender inequality” remains in all university sectors and that “there are concerns about widespread Title IX violations in high school, college and college sports programs” before the Covid-19-19 pandemic has made women’s sports more vulnerable.
Purdue University professor Cheryl Cooky said that so far, no federal funding has been revoked at any level because they do not meet IX standards, requiring institutions to provide equal access and treatment to women. She wondered about the past fifty years that all this support for women’s sports in general, not especially on this issue.
“All of these other inequality phenomena already exist, and now you have the ability to solve these opportunities, is that the problem you are going to solve?” Kuy said earlier this year. “It’s a question of government concern, it’s about how we value women in this society and how we evaluate women’s sports in this society.”
However, given Trump’s unpredictable approach to administration, precedents and history may not apply.
How will this work at the state level?
About half of the states have already enacted legislation that effectively prohibits trans athletes from participating in categories that align with gender identity. The Associated Press reported in 2021 that in many cases, in many cases, bans on trans athletes have been triggered, and the inability to cite their participation is a problem situation.
Some states have planned to challenge Trump orders in court. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called the order “despicable and illegal” and called on those who opposed the order to “stand together and fight back.”
What is unclear is whether federal agencies can follow specific organizations (such as the state high school athletic association) that do not receive funding directly from the federal government.
How will this affect college sports?
The NCAA committee acted quickly to modify its transgender engagement policy to limit competition in women’s sports to athletes designated by women at birth. The NCAA has more than 500,000 athletes participating in about 1,100 schools.
“We strongly believe that clear, consistent and unified eligibility standards will best serve today’s student-athletes rather than being pieced together in conflict with national laws and court rulings,” Baker said at the time. “To this end, President Trump’s orders provide clear national standards.”
National University Athletics Association, the governing body of more than 200 small schools across the country, voted unanimously in 2023 to effectively ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Where is the Olympics?
Once Trump wins his second term, most people will have the move, and his administration still manages to sneak in the curveball.
The order requires the Secretary of State’s Office to use “all appropriate and available measures” in order to get the International Olympic Committee to propose a unified transgender policy. The organization has passed years of fees to postpone the international league of each sport.
Zimbabwe’s Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry has replaced Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee. She is a two-time Olympic champion swimmer, telling the BBC before she was elected that ensuring equal opportunities and fairness is the responsibility of the IOC.
“I don’t believe we can do this based on the medical and scientific research I’ve seen, if we add or allow trans women to participate immediately in the women category,” she said. “It’s obvious that trans women are more capable in the women category and can take away the same opportunities women should.”
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Associated Press sports writer Graham Dunbar and Associated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill contributed to the report.
