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PALM BEACH, Florida – Days after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two landmark cases involving state laws protecting girls’ and women’s sports, President Donald Trump declared, “We took men out of women’s sports.”
Speaking at an inauguration ceremony at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, the president discussed his administration’s efforts to ensure the safeguarding of women’s sports amid an ongoing national debate surrounding the participation of transgender athletes.
President Donald Trump speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 2026. Florida state legislators approved the renaming of a portion of Southern Boulevard to President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“…Transgender madness is out of our schools and out of our lives,” Trump said. “And we took men out of women’s sports; officially, out of women’s sports.”
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“And everyone said, well, that’s a 80/20 thing. No, it’s a 98/2 thing. I don’t even think it’s 98/2.”
Trump began his second term focusing on protecting girls and women’s sports. In February, he signed the “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, prompting the NCAA to update its policy the next day to limit women’s competition to biological women.
Soon, other sports governing bodies would follow suit, but a handful of Democratic-controlled states, most notably Maine, California and Minnesota, refused to comply. Legal battles followed, including two that came before the Supreme Court on Tuesday: Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ.
The Supreme Court will examine whether the laws of those states, Idaho and West Virginia, violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution and the landmark federal law Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.
President Donald Trump arrives at a dedication ceremony for a portion of Southern Boulevard that the Palm Beach City Council recently voted to rename as President Donald J. Trump Boulevard at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted the administration’s efforts in a briefing Thursday and criticized some of the Supreme Court justices for appearing to question biological differences between men and women during Tuesday’s hearing.
“The administration… [has] We have taken action on several fronts against these states that do not respect the president’s executive orders and this administration’s policy of simply protecting women, women’s sports, and women’s private spaces. We have also taken on the great universities in this country to try to fight for what is right and fair for women in this country.
A protester holds a sign outside the Supreme Court during arguments over state laws banning transgender girls and women from playing on school sports teams, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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“I think the president speaks common sense on this issue, that sports and women’s private spaces should be protected and that there are two genders, there are two sexes – that’s not something we should be afraid to say in this country.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling is expected to come later this summer.
