Donald Trump has just signed an executive order banning trans athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sport.
“We will defend the proud tradition of female athletes,” he says.
“Women’s sports will only be for women.”
He says the order is putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that “if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms”, they will be investigated and risk losing federal funding.
“There will be no federal funding. So this will effectively end the attack on female athletes,” he adds.Speaking to our US partner network NBC this morning, White House Officials said they expected headlines about today’s executive order to use the word transgender, “but this has nothing to do with that.”
The order, they said, aims to protect women’s access to safe and fair athletic opportunities, and it will do that in two ways.
