Trump’s latest executive order takes aim at trans women in sport
Yesterday (5 February), US President Trump signed yet another executive order targeting the trans community. After taking aim at trans women’s access to single-sex spaces and undermining youth access to gender-affirming care, Trump is also homing in on trans women and girls in sport.
The executive order, named ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’, takes immediate effect and concerns school, university and grassroots sports.
The order announces an intention to effectively ban all trans women and girls from female locker rooms and female sports. It also announces a desire that athletics associations and governing bodies change their policies to bar all trans women from competition in female sports, regardless of any measures taken to lower hormone levels.
More concerning still, it announces an aim of implementing these norms in international sports, by stating an intention to: “promote, including at the United Nations, international rules and norms governing sports competition to protect a sex-based female sports category” Despite the extreme measures announced within the document, the number of out trans athletes is minimal.
