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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will prohibit biological men from competing in women’s sports across the country. A White House official told reporters that the executive order works under Title IX, and that the Department of Education will be investigating any school that violates the presidential action and allows biological men to compete in women’s sports on any level. Title IX is landmark legislation from 1972 that prohibits discrimination based on sex in any public school or university that receives federal funding.
(RELATED: Trump’s Education Department Probes Blue State School For Turning Girls’ Bathroom Into ‘All-Gender’ Space) While signing the order, the president was surrounded by various activists who have advocated throughout the years to prohibit biological men from competing in women’s sports. Trump said “the war on women’s sports is over” in his speech prior to the signing. “I’m going to sign the executive order right now, and everything is going to go into effect immediately,” Trump moments before he signed the order.
He was surrounded by school-age girls as he signed the document. 🏆 History is being made TODAY. We’ll be standing in the @WhiteHouse as President Trump signs an Executive Order to protect women’s sports & spaces.
See you soon, @POTUS ! pic.twitter.com/yFHKYcAol3 — Independent Women’s Forum (@IWF) February 5, 2025 The executive order also addresses visa policies and the International Olympic Committee, a White House official told reporters.
Under the presidential order, the official explained that the administration is going to do all it can using its authority to protect women’s sports when events take place on U.S. soil.
“If you are coming into the country and you are claiming that you are a woman, but you are a man now here to compete against women, we’re going to be reviewing that for fraud,” the official said of the visa policies. (RELATED: ‘Not Moving Backwards’: More Red States Join Push To Bar Men From Competing In Women’s Sports) Trump’s executive order is a response to controversial proposed actions that former President Joe Biden’s Department of Education took to expand Title IX to protect against discrimination based on an individual’s gender identity. Under the 2022 rule change every sex-separated space, program, building, bathroom and locker room would be separated on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex, Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Sarah Perry previously said.
Demonstrators listen to the speaking program during an “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rally for the 50th anniversary of Title IX at Freedom Plaza on June 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. The rally, organized by multiple athletic women’s groups was held to call on U.S.
President Joe Biden to put restrictions on transgender females and “advocate to keep women’s sports female.”(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Later, the Biden administration proposed a policy that would require public schools to take into account “fairness in competition” and the prevention of “sports-related injury” when developing policies for the creation of sports teams. It also moved to prohibit federally funded schools from adopting a “one-size-fits-all-policy” that would keep students from joining sports teams on the basis of gender identity.
After facing numerous legal challenges, the department withdrew the proposed Title IX rule change during Biden’s final days in office. (RELATED: ‘Do You Think This Is Fair?’: Biden’s Education Sec Refuses To Answer GOP Rep’s Question About Men In Women’s Sports) “Things could’ve been so different. Gender insanity was the final straw that brought a lot of moderates to the side of common sense.
Specifically, I believe it was the issue of men in women’s sports. I’ve been living in a state of gratitude everyday since Nov 5th. Praise God,” Riley Gaines posted on Twitter as she announced she would be in attendance for the executive order signing.
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