Trump bans trans athletes in school
Donald Trump on Wednesday, Feb. 4, signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
He signed the order in the East Room surrounded by lawmakers and female athletes who have come out in support of a ban, including former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, who was spurred to become an anti-trans activist after she managed to only place fifth in an NCAA freestyle championship, tying with trans swimmer Lia Thomas. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump declared in signing the order.
Transgender advocates, however, say that the “war on women’s sports” is nothing more than right-wing propaganda, and that this order and other actions from the Trump administration are, in fact, a war on transgender people at the most basic level.
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality, said in a written statement: “This executive order is a malicious and baseless attack on trans girls and women nationwide.
