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

    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.

  • HUD directs agency to prohibit trans males from federally funded women-only shelters

    HUD directs agency to prohibit trans males from federally funded women-only shelters

    On his first day in office, Eric Turner made a bold move as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 

    He directed agency staff to suspend all pending and future enforcement actions related to the Obama-era Equal Access Rule, which required HUD-funded programs and shelters to determine eligibility based on a person’s self-identified gender.

    Turner said that the move was part of President Donald Trump’s agenda to “restore biological truth to the federal government.”

    “We want to protect the ladies entering any HUD facilities,” Turner told reporters Thursday, adding that he wants to “restore equal rights, but no extra rights.” The Secretary added that most of the females who utilize HUD shelters already come from domestic violence situations, and he wants to ensure that their tragedies are not exacerbated when they turn to the federal government for help.

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    Trump’s newly confirmed HUD Secretary Eric Turner is rescinding rules prohibiting federally funded shelters from asking for proof of someone’s biological gender.

    Turner’s directive follows Trump’s Day One executive order terminating federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and mandating the federal government only recognize two genders, male and female. This week, Trump signed an executive order preventing biological males who identify as females from competing on women’s sports teams, as well as another prohibiting minors from receiving puberty blockers or transition surgery.

    Under the 2016 Equal Access Rule that Turner is rescinding, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and other federally funded HUD-assisted housing programs were prohibited from requiring people to prove they are biologically female. Following Turner’s directive, this will no longer be prohibited. 

    Trump signs the No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order

    President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2025.  (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

    In 2018, nine California women filed a lawsuit against a local women’s shelter in Fresno, which operates with public funds, for allegedly forcing them to take showers alongside a biological male who identified as a woman and who they claimed sexually harassed them. 

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    Last year, police in Greenville, South Carolina, arrested a transgender woman, Michelle Silva Perez, for stabbing a shelter employee after Perez was admitted to the emergency shelter meant only for women and mothers. The facility, which receives both state and federal funding, said it would have acted differently if it had known that the suspect was not a biological woman.

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    A protester holds a placard outside of the Pennsylvania Capitol this week during a 50501 Movement protesting the Trump administration's policies aimed at transgender folks.

    A protester holds a placard outside of the Pennsylvania Capitol this week during a 50501 Movement protesting the Trump administration’s policies aimed at transgender folks.

    Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.