Trump Signs Order Barring Trans Females From Girls' & Women's Sports

At an exuberant ceremony in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order that bars natal males from girls' and women's sports. It applies to K-12 schools and universities.

President Trump at the White House Wednesday. Directly behind him is Riley Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer who is a prominent activist campaigning against trans women’s inclusion in women’s sports.

President Donald Trump maintained his breakneck pace of executive-order signing on Wednesday, applying his zig-zag signature with one of his signature Sharpies to a new order that would deny federal funding to schools that permit transgender females to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.*

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“The war on women’s sports is over,” Mr. Trump said at an exuberant and boisterous ceremony in the White House.

This was, in fact, the opening salvo of a new phase of the ongoing legal and political war regarding this combustible issue over inclusion and fairness in sports.

“On day one, I made it official, and I’m making it official policy of United States that there are two gender…