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Trump touts executive order keeping biological males from women’s sports

President Donald Trump touted the executive order he signed to keep biological males out of women’s sports earlier this week in his interview on Fox News Channel on Sunday.

Trump was asked in the interview by Bret Baier how he was going to bring the country together and find common ground with those who are against his policies.

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President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

“I’d love to do it. But I would say this: We have to come together, but to come together, there’s only one thing that’s going to do it, and that’s massive success,” Trump said. “Success will bring the country together. But it’s hard. And I say it’s hard.

Trump then turned his attention to the executive order.

“I just signed a bill allowing for women not to have to be punished by men in sports. In other words, men are not going to be allowed to play in sports against women. It’s ridiculous,” he said.

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President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signed the order earlier in the week as he was joined by several athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. His signature came on National Girls and Women’s Sports Day.

The NCAA responded to Trump’s executive order by changing its trans participation policy.

“A student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team,” the new policy read.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The previous policy, which had been in place in 2010, allowed biological males to compete in the women’s category after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

February 9, 2025
Riley Gaines, advocates to join Trump for executive order keeping biological men out of women’s sports

Advocates for fairness in women’s sports will join President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he is expected to sign an executive order to keep biological men from competing against females.

Independent Women ambassadors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens will be at the White House for the signing.

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Riley Gaines gives a speech at Penn State. (Riley Gaines)

The executive order will come on National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Wednesday, which celebrates female athletes from across women’s sports and those who are committed to providing equal access to sports for all females. The executive order will concern public institutions, OutKick confirmed on Tuesday.

“National Girls and Women in Sports Day is incredibly special to me, more so now after experiencing the injustice of competing against a male firsthand and talking to hundreds of other female athletes and parents with similar stories,” Gaines, who is the host of OutKick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast, said in a news release. “Who could have predicted back in 1987 when the day was created that we would be fighting to keep men out of women’s sports?

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Paula Scanlan, left, and Riley Gaines attend the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of “Lady Ballers” on Nov. 29, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Davis/Getty Images for Bentkey Ventures)

“Luckily, we now have a president in the White House that has already proven he stands with women and actually knows what a ‘woman’ is. I’m counting on the Senate to bring Sen. Tuberville’s Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to a vote as soon as possible and send it on to the president’s desk.”

Trump made fairness in women’s sports a major campaign issue on his way to winning the presidential election over former Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

At the beginning of January, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as “gender identity.” Then, Trump’s Department of Education told K-12 schools and higher learning institutions that Title IX protections would be recognized on the basis of biological sex.

Trump made clear in December he was going to end the “transgender lunacy.”

Then-former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)

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“As someone who was directly impacted by a male athlete on my college women’s swim team, I know how important it is to preserve female-only sport and space,” Scanlan, a former UPenn swimmer and teammate of Lia Thomas, added. “Current and future female athletes shouldn’t be subjected to what my teammates and I went through. Thankfully, the current administration is following through on promises to stop the insanity.”

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

February 5, 2025
Trump to sign executive order to keep biological men out of women’s sports

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to keep biological men out of women’s sports, OutKick confirmed on Tuesday.

The executive order will come on National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Wednesday, which celebrates female athletes across women’s sports and those who are committed to providing equal access to sports for all females.

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Trump made fairness in women’s sports a major campaign issue on his way to winning the presidential election over former Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

At the beginning of January, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as “gender identity.” Then, Trump’s Department of Education told K-12 schools and higher learning institutions that Title IX protections would be recognized on the basis of biological sex.

Trump made clear in December he was going to end the “transgender lunacy.”

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President Donald Trump will sign the order on National Girls and Women in Sports Day. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“And we will keep men out of women’s sports,” he said in part at a convention in Arizona. “And that will, likewise, be done on Day 1. Should I do Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3? How about Day 1? Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders — male and female. It doesn’t sound too complicated. Does it?”

As he accepted the Republican nomination for president in July, he made his stance clear.

“We will not have men playing in women’s sports, that will end immediately,” he said at the time.

Riley Gaines has championed fairness in women’s sports. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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He also appeared on Barstool Sports’ “Bussin’ with the Boys” with former NFL players Taylor Lewan and Will Compton and called the notion of trans inclusion in women’s sports “ridiculous.”

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

February 4, 2025