“We will get men out of female sport.” It is a promise that Donald Trump He never forgot to repeat in his campaign rallies and now, after just over two weeks at the White House, he has taken the first step for … fulfill it. He referred, of course, to the presence of transgender women in female competitions. It is very minority, but it has become one of the issues that light the conservative electorate the most.
The president of USA He planned to sign an executive order yesterday in the Oval Office with an almost equal name to that of that electoral promise: “Leave men out of women’s sport.” In essence, the presidential decree vetoes the participation of transgender women – men and adults – in schools and universities. It does so through a new interpretation of Title IX, a law that prevents sexual discrimination in educational centers that have federal financing.
Until now, the interpretation of Title IX made by the previous Government, that of Joe BidenIt was the opposite: by virtue of that law, transgender people cannot be discriminated to participate in the competitions of the genre with which they identify.
Those who oppose the presence of transgender women in women’s sport defend that it is something unfair, that it gives competitive advantage to these people and that in some cases it can mean physical risks for women against whom they compete. From the activists side, LGBTQthe central position is that there is no reliable evidence that it is a real advantage in the competition and that its presence in women’s sport is anecdotal. Charlie Bakerpresident of the agency that encompasses the powerful university sport, the NCAA, testified a few weeks ago in Congress that there were only knowledge of ten transgender women competing in regulated university sports.
Trump has exposed less complex reasons to boost his position. “As of today, the US government policy is that there are only two genres: men and women,” he said from the moment he swore his position, in his speech from the Capitol. Since then, he has taken several initiatives against transgender people: among others, restrictions for his presence in the army, eliminating federal financing to processes of sexual transition and prohibition of these minors.
Vetos to transgender women in women’s sport are not new in the US about twenty states of strong republican implementation have already approved them. Among others in Texas, whose governor visited Trump yesterday in the White House Shortly before the US president signed this executive order. But there has also been a response in courts, with two sentences that have blocked their implementation, in Idaho and in Virginia.
The executive order does not remain in schools and affects several branches of the US government will require National Security Departmentwith competencies on the entry of foreigners in the country, to review the requests of athlete visa that will participate in competitions in the US to ensure that they do it with the sex of their birth. “If you come to this country and ensure that you are a woman, but you are a man who is going to compete against women, we will investigate it for fraud,” the White House defended before the order was presented.
The decree also implies the State Department, which is ordered that “require changes” to the International Olympic Committee to avoid the Olympic participation of transgender women. According to the Order, the US will use “all our authority and our ability” to comply with it in three years, when the angels is the headquarters of the 2028 Olympic Games.
«The president expects both the Olympic Committee and the NCAA They no longer allow men who compete in women’s sports, ”said Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press head. “Wait for this order to comply with.”
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