Governor Youngkin praises Trump for ‘saving women’s sports’
Governor Glenn Youngkin, Republican of Virginia, celebrates the executive order of President Donald Trump, except for the transgender athletes of women’s sports and shares his opinion on the administration that looks at the elimination of the Department of Education in ‘The Will Cain Show’.
President Donald Trump celebrated the announcement of the NCAA of a new policy on Thursday that prevents transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports after signing an executive order to address the problem a day before.
Trump proclaimed himself “The president to save women’s sports” in a social position of the truth of celebration. He also suggested that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be the next important sports institution to follow its order.
“Due to my executive order, which I signed with pride yesterday, the NCAA has officially changed its policy of allowing men in women’s sports, now it is prohibited! This is a great day for women and girls in everything Our country, “Trump wrote.
“Men should never be allowed to compete against women in the first place, but I am proud to be the president to save women’s sports. We hope that the Olympic Games Committee also uses common sense and implements this policy, which is very popular between the American people and the whole world! “
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The previous policy of the NCAA, which had been in force in 2010, allowed biological men to compete in women’s sports after undergoing at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment. The new policy establishes: “A student-attached to man at birth may not compete in a team of women.”
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Before Trump signed the order on Wednesday, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that part of the motivation behind Trump’s executive order would be to create a “pressure campaign” for the International Olympic Committee (COI ) and the NCAA to continue and prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
During the Trump ceremony at the White House to sign the executive order, he announced that the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem It will prohibit any transgender athlete who tries to compete as women to enter the country for the Olympic Games in 2028.
Trump said he will instruct Noem “to deny each and every one of the visa applications made by men trying fraudulently to the United States while identifying themselves while athletes try to enter the games.”
There was controversy around the eligibility of gender at the Paris Olympic Games in July and August.
The Imane Khelif boxers in Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan won gold medals in the female boxing. Both athletes had previously disqualified international competitions to fail in gender eligibility tests. However, the COI and current President Thomas Bach expressed support for both athletes. The IOC also insisted that both athletes were biologically women.
Before that, Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, competed in weightlifting for the New Zealand team, and the Canadian soccer player Quinn came out as non -binary and transgender in 2020.
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With Bach preparing to leave office at the end of this year, the next president of the IOC could help to carry out Trump’s vision on the subject more cooperatively.
The former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is a candidate to be the next president of the IOC and has suggested that he will take measures to prevent transgender inclusion in women’s events.
COE is the head of World Athletics, the Government Body for International Athletics Competition. In 2023, the governing body harden its regulations on transgender athletes to exclude transgender women who have passed through male puberty to compete in the women’s category. This regulation also reduced the maximum level of testosterone for eligible female competitors.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in female sporting events or girls in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
COE said that if he becomes president of the IOC, the new Olympic policy on transgender inclusion “probably” will reflect the one that has established in world athletics. Coe has also said that the controversy surrounding Khelif and Yu-Ting made him feel “uncomfortable.”
He United Nations The findings of the study published saying that almost 900 biological females have not been winning medals because they lost to transgender athletes.
The study “,Violence against women and girls in sports“He said that more than 600 athletes did not measure in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, with a total of more than 890 medals, according to the information obtained until March 30.
“The replacement of the women’s sports category with a mixed sex category has resulted in a growing number of athletes that lose opportunities, including medals, when they compete against men,” the report said.
