President Trump signs Executive Order who signed the trans -athletes of women, girls’ sports (video with cordial approval: Nexstar Washington DC Bureau).
Charleston, WV (Wowk/AP) – the governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, was in Washington, when President Donald Trump signed an executive regulation, in which transgender girls from women’s and girls sports were banned.
The order, which Trump signed on Wednesday at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive change in the second administration of the Republican President in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and its rights.
The president solved out a comprehensive order On his first day of the office in the past month, which the Federal Government demanded to define sex as only male or female in order to reflect on official documents such as passports and guidelines such as federal prisons.
During the campaign, Trump found that his promise to “keep men from women away” was in the order beyond the usual party borders. More than half of the voters surveyed by Voting AP The support of the transgender rights in the government and society has gone too far.
Before the election, he leaned into the rhetoric and promised to get rid of the “transgender madness”, although his campaign hardly offered any details.
During his tenure as the Attorney General of West Virginia, Morrisey directed several complaints that tried to ban transgender youth from women and girls sports in the mountain state, and even asked the US Court of Justice, the case of the state in relation to athletes Start in sports, based on your biological sex at birth, regardless of your gender identity.
In April 2024, The court of appeal of the fourth circle voted to block the law To say that it violates the rights of transgender students. The decision was made in the case of BPJ, a transgender bridge port student who wanted to compete in the Girls’ Track team.
Together with this case, Morrisey asked the US Court of Justice to check another judgment of the Court of April in April in April Lack of West Virginia Medicaid cover for gender -known care violated against the fourteenth amendment, the law on Medicaid Act and Affordable Care Act.
In his tenure last month, Morrisey also swore to eliminate the “Woke -Virus” in schools and partially eliminate that “there will be no longer any more, no more radical agendas, no more brainwashing, no more confusion about the differences between Boys and boys and no more girls.
Wednesday order – what corresponds to each other National girls and women in the sports day – includes how his administration will interpret Title IXThe law, which is known primarily for its role in pursuing gender performance in athletics and to prevent sexual harassment on the campus.
“This executive order restores fairness, keeps the original intent of titles IX and defends the rights of athletes who compete all their lives at the highest level,” said the US representative Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina.
Each administration has the authority to issue its own interpretations of Landmark legislation. The last two presidential administrative administrations-including Trump’s first bidges, an insight into the push pull involved.
At the ceremony, Trump said that every school that makes it possible for a transgender athlete to play women’s sports because of alleged violations of titles IX and may lose their federal financing.
Betsy Devos, the education secretary during Trump’s first term, gave A Title IX guideline In 2020, which restricted the definition of sexual harassment and called for the universities, only to examine if they were reported to certain civil servants.
The Biden administration thrown this guideline back last April last April With its own According to the Federal Law, the fact that the rights of LGBTQ+ students have determined were protected and fresh protective measures for victims of sexual attacks on campus were provided. The guideline expressly stopped Address of transgender athletes. Still more than half a dozen states guided by Republicans challenged immediately The fresh rule in court.
“Everything that Trump has to say is:” We will traditionally read the regulation, “said Doriane Lamlbaret Coleman, professor at Duke Law School.
How this order could affect the transgender athlete – a number that is incredibly hard to determine – is uncertain.
The Associated Press reported in 2021 that in many cases the states will introduce a ban on transgender athletes could not quote any instances where your participation was a problem. As the legislature of the state of Utah Overwrite a veto From Governor Spencer Cox in 2022, the state only had a transgender girl in K-12 sports that would be affected by the ban. It did not regulate participation for transgender boys.
“This is a solution that is looking for a problem,” said Cheryl Cooky, professor at Purdue University, who examines the interface of gender, sport, media and culture, the AP after Trump was chosen.
However, the actual number of transgender athletes seems to be almost irrelevant. Every case of a transgender female athlete who takes part in competitions – and even as competing – draws excessive attention to himself, from Lia Thomas swimming for the University of Pennsylvania For the recently completed season of The San Jose State Volleyball team.
In the primary election 2024 in West Virginia for the governor, many of the television advertising of the Republican candidates focused on transgender issues that are giving away from challenging -ent -man and girls’ sports athletes. Just one week before this basic election, an exclusive survey of 13 News/Emerson College showed that 54% of Republican voters for primary school were “very concerned” transgender problems, while only 20% had no concern at all.
A Demographic study by the UCLA about the mountain state last year showed that less than 1% of West Virginians identify as transgender.
During the time of this survey, Fairness West Virginia said that it was concerned for teenage people who identify themselves as a transgender in middle school and in high school because they are among the highest depression and suicide in their groups of peers.
The Associated PressWowk and Wboy contributed to this report.
