Donald Trump's executive order that prohibits transgender athletes from participating in women's sports and girls is applauded by the high -profile wife of an important NFL executive.
Lacie Decosta, who is married to the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens, Eric Decosta, reacted to the news on social networks writing: “It is a great day for women's sports.”
The Order, entitled 'Main 'Sex' like the genre that someone was assigned to birth.
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the order “maintains the promise of title IX” and will require “immediate action, including application actions, against schools and sports associations” that deny women individual athletes and costumes of a single sex.
The moment of the order coincided with national girls and women on Sports Day, and is the last of a series of executive actions of the Republican President aimed at transgender people.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in female sporting events or girls
Lacie Decosta (right), who is married to Baltimore Ravens, Eric Decosta (left), reacted to the news on social networks writing: “It is a great day for women's sports”
Trump discovered during the campaign that the theme resonated beyond the usual party lines. More than half of the voters surveyed by AP Votast said that support for transgender rights in government and society has gone too far. He relied on rhetoric before the elections, committing to get rid of “transgender madness”, although his campaign offered little details.
“With this executive order, the war against women's sports is over,” Trump said in a signature ceremony in the East room that included female legislators and athletes who have attended a prohibition, including former university swimmer Riley Gaines.
The order offers some clarity. For example, it authorizes the Department of Education to penalize schools that allow transgender athletes to compete, citing breach of title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination in schools. Any school that is in violation could be inevable for federal financing.
Making Trump orders will be a priority of the conflict department. In a call this week, the interim director of the Civil Rights Office told the staff that they would need to align their investigations with Trump's priorities, according to people who were in the call they spoke on condition of anonymity to AP for fear of reprisals.
Since Trump assumed the position, the department has opened an investigation into Denver's public schools on a gender bath that replaced the bathroom of a girl, while leaving another exclusive for children.
Trans athletes, such as the swimmer Ex-Penn, Lia Thomas (left), have faced criticism nationwide
Trump also issued a warning to the International Olympic Committee before the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The president said he had trained Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make the IOC clearly make the United States categorically rejects the transgender madness. We want them to change everything that has to do with the Olympic Games and have to do with this absolutely ridiculous theme.
The IOC has essentially passed money in transgender participation, deferring international federations for each sport.
That could change, however, when a new COI president is presented to replace the retirement of Thomas Bach. The former star of the Sebastian Coe track, now World Athletics leader, is among the candidates for the elections in March. COE has been a strong defender of limiting participation in women's sports to cisgender women.
Trump also said that National Security Director Kristi Noem “will deny each and every one of the visa applications made by men trying fraudulently to the United States while identifying as women athletes to try to enter the games.”
The organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games did not immediately respond to the requests for comments.
The order is the last of a series of Trump administration movements aimed at transgender people.
The previous ones have tried to make the federal government reject the idea that people can make the transition to a genre that is not assigned to birth. That has implications for areas that include passports and prisons. He also opened the door except members of the Army Transgender Service; called to end Federal Health Insurance and other funds for gender care for transgender people under 19; and restrict the way in which gender lessons can be taught in schools.
The last request was convicted of the defenders of trans rights, including the National Center for Women and Glaad Law.
“Contrary to what the president wants me to believe, trans students do not represent threats to sports, schools or this country, and deserve the same opportunities as their classmates to learn, play and grow in safe environments,” said Fatima Goss Serious Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center.
The setback of some of the administration's initiatives has already begun in the Court. Transgender people have sued several of the policies and are likely to come more. The civil rights lawyers who handle cases have affirmed that, in some cases, Trump's orders violate the laws adopted by Congress and protections in the Constitution, and that exceed the author's authority.
Trump surrounded himself with athletes and activists for an executive order signed in the East room on Wednesday, except for the trans participation in women's sports
There could be similar questions for this order, for example: can the president demand that the NCAA change their policies?
The president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, said that his Board of Governors was reviewing the order and “will take the necessary measures to align the NCAA's policy in the next few days, subject to more orientation of the administration.” Baker, who said last year that he was aware of less than 10 active athletes of the NCAA that were identified as transgender, said the order at least provides a uniform policy instead of a mosaic of state laws.
The order occurred one day after three former teammates of the transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, file a law Conference and National Championships.
The lawsuit, which makes accusations similar to those presented last year by Gaines and others, alleges that the defendants violated title IX by allowing Thomas to swim 'and acted in bad faith.'