On Wednesday, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring men from women’s sports through Title IX, withholding funding from universities that insist on allowing male athletes to encroach on women’s competition.

The order will also empower women who are forced to compete against men to sue their schools and directs the Department of Homeland Security to deny visa applications from foreign athletes who identify themselves as the opposite sex in order to compete in the U.S.

At the signing ceremony, Trump specifically cited the importance of protecting female athletes at the upcoming 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles and the World Cup.

“My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. We’re just not going to let it happen,” Trump said.

Trump was joined at the signing ceremony by female athletes who lost out on opportunities due to male competition. Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines came in second to male University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas in the 2022 Women’s Division 200-yard Freestyle National Championship, while Payton McNabb was seriously injured when a male high school volleyball player spiked a ball into her face.

Passed in 1972, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in the allocation of federal funds. The measure was intended to support women’s sports and other campus activities, but was interpreted by the Biden administration to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity, which allowed males who identify as women to access female competition and spaces.

Only a couple weeks into his second term, Trump has used his executive authority repeatedly to undo the Biden regime’s support for progressive gender ideology, starting with a declaration on day one of his administration that there are only two genders: male and female. That order restored the sex binary to federal policy.

Trump pledged while running for office to prohibit transgender-identifying male athletes from women’s sports if elected.

“The president bans it,” Trump said at a town hall in October when asked how he would treat the issue of men’s intrusion into the women’s category. “You just don’t let it happen. Not a big deal.”

Titled “Violence against women and girls in sports,” an August study conducted by the United Nations found that by March 30, 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 women’s division events across 29 different sports were defeated by transgender-identifying men. Male athletes have taken over 890 medals from female athletes, the report said.

“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” the report said.

In late January, Trump also issued an executive order to ban invasive sex-change surgeries and hormone therapy for children, dubiously named “gender-affirming health care” by progressive ideologues and much of the medical field.

The order will cut back federal funding for medical institutions that provide puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgical mutilations to minors.

“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” the order reads. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”

Trump’s order requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to encourage practices that will “improve the health of minors with gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion, or who otherwise seek chemical or surgical mutilation,” rather than encourage children to undergo irreversible procedures that carry countless side effects.

As the child gender transition order alluded, those who transition are likely to become permanent patients of the medical industry. This fact also served as the basis of another January executive order that will eventually disqualify transgender individuals from serving or enlisting in the military on grounds of mental unfitness.

Gender dysphoria, that other order states, is a mental condition that comes with bodily consequences that are incompatible with active duty and “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.” Those struggling with it “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service,” the order states.

The order explains that admitting trans soldiers in the armed forces is a liability to military lethality. Those who receive so-called treatment for gender dysphoria often sign up for lifetime follow-up appointments that jeopardize deployability, or the ability of a service member to be deployed at sudden notice when duty calls. The order points out that transgender individuals often seek medical procedures that leave them physically unable to perform for extended periods.

Transgenderism is also a mental illness, the order notes, that can interfere with military performance. Transgender risk of suicide is also a significant concern, as 81 percent of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide and 42 percent of transgender adults have attempted it, according to a 2023 study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

Reprinted with permission from National Review by Caroline Downey.

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