Trump signals order to ban transgender women from women games
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in the women’s categories of sports.
This order provides guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will recruit the Education Department to investigate non-non-compliance high schools.
Republican says it restores fairness for the game but LGBT advocacy and human rights organizations have described the move as discriminatory.
This order, which applies immediately, covers high schools, universities and ground level games to a large extent.
Several sports glory bodies, including swimming, athletics and golf, have banned transgender women from competing in the female category at the elite level if they have passed through male puberty.
According to White House officials, who informed reporters on Wednesday morning, it empowers the latest order to investigate the education department to check how the schools implement the title IX, an American law that federally in federally funded education programs Restrictions sexual discrimination.
An administration official said the executive order would reverse the situation of the Biden administration, which in April last year said that LGBT students would be preserved by federal law, although it did not give specific guidance to transgender athletes.
“If you allow men to handle women’s sports teams or attack your locker room, you will be investigated for violation of the title IX and put their federal funding at risk,” Tram explained.
Additionally, the White House plans to bring into sports bodies – such as the National Collegiate Athletics Association, or NCAA – to discuss the concerns to meet women athletes and their parents to visit the White House to meet.
The officer discussing the order said that the US would do all this to prevent athletes from competing against women in the international Olympic committee competitions that are on the US earth.
President Trump specified that the order would include 2028 Olympic sports in Los Angeles.
He has said that he will deny a visa for transgender Olympic athletes, who are trying to visit the US to compete in LA Games.
Before signing the executive order, Trump announced that “the war on women’s game is over”, saying that during the LA Games, “My administration defeated men and not defeated women athletes.”
He said that he would instruct the Secretary of Homeland Security “Identifying themselves as female athletes while trying to enter the United States to deny any and all visa applications made by men …”
IOC has been approached for comment.
White house officials described policies as widely popular with Americans, and is important to ensure “fairness” for women in sports, as well as protection.
In a statement, Kelly Robinson, president of the human rights campaign, said the order “exposes youth to harassment and discrimination, motivating people to question the gender of those children who do not fit a narrow view about it. They do how they are to wear or see clothes “.
“For so many students, the game is about searching elsewhere,” said Ms. Robinson. “There are no partial policies that make life difficult for them.”
According to a study by the UCLA Williams Institute, less than 1% of the population of more than 13 years in the US is transgender, and sports playing games are small.
On the first day of Trump in the office on 20 January, he signed a separate order to define sex as an officially male or female to the federal government.
