Linda McMahon made clear her position on trans inclusion in women and girls sports during her confirmation audience for the Secretary of Education on Thursday.
“I don’t think biological boys can be able to compete against girls in sports, and I think that now that it has certainly not only spoken to people, because that was something that Trump ran a lot, but I think the court He has spoken, “McMahon said.
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Linda McMahon speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 18, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
TO national output survey Directed by the women’s legislative action committee for America (CWA) in question, it found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender children and men who play girls and sports of women and women of children and transgender men who use baths of girls and women, “so important to them. And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
Trump promised during his 2024 campaign to ban trans athletes of women and girls sports. Trump fulfilled that early promise when he signed the executive order of No Men In Women’s Sports on February 5.
Before that, the Supreme Court ruled in August to deny an emergency application of the Biden administration to enforce portions of the rewriting of Title IX of the former President that would allow biological men in women and girls locker room.
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And as McMahon seeks to be confirmed as Secretary of Education, he insists on carrying out the original mission of Title IX and maintaining women’s sports for biological women.
“We really return to what Title IX was originally established to do and that was to protect social discrimination. Women should feel safe in their locker rooms. They should feel safe in their spaces. They should not have to be exposed to men who vanish In front of them, “McMahon said Thursday.
“I heard one person the other day say: ‘Well, the boys should sustain the shower curtain in front of them so that they do not expose themselves.’ I mean, that is not what we should be doing.
The Secretary of Education of the Biden Administration, Miguel Angel Cardona, supported Trans athletes compete in sports of women and girls.
Cardona helped write the changes in title IX that would have prohibited general prohibitions of transgender athletes in public school teams.
In a June 2021 interview with ESPN, Cardona said that “transgender girls have the right to compete.”
Linda McMahon testifies during the Confirmation Hearing of the Senate Health, Labor, Labor and Pensions Committee on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“Our LGBTQ students have suffered more harassment than most other groups. It is of vital importance to support them and give them opportunities to participate in what any other child can participate without harassment,” Cardona said.
“It is your right as a student to participate in these activities. And we know that Sports does more than simply putting ribbons to the winner of the first, second and third place,” he said. “We know that it provides opportunities for students to be part of a team, learn a lot about themselves, establish objectives and achieve them and challenge themselves. Athletics establishes that in our K-12 systems and in our universities, and all students They deserve the opportunity to participate in that. “
Now, under the Trump administration, there will be multiple layers of efforts to prevent Trans athletes from competing in women’s sports, and the McMahon agenda will be one of those layers if it is confirmed.
A recent one New York Times/Ipsos Survey He discovered that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, do not believe that transgender athletes are allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people surveyed, 79% said that biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as Democrats or inclined Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be able to compete with women.
