The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Wednesday an executive order aimed at fulfilling one of its main campaign promises and has been criticized by human rights organizations: prohibit transgender women can compete in women’s sports.
“In recent years, the radical left has promoted a campaign to eradicate the concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology. In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive order to prohibit men in women’s sports. It was already Time, “he said shortly before signing the decree, between applause
“From now on, women’s sport will be only for women. We will proudly defend the tradition of athletes and we will not allow men to hit, injure them and cheat against our women and our girls. From now on, sport, sport female will be only for women, “said the US president.
“Men out of female sports”
The Executive Order, called Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports (Keeping men outside women’s sports), is based on an interpretation of Title IX, a historic Federal Civil Rights Law approved in 1972, which prohibits discrimination due to sex in any school or educational program that receives federal funds .
Each administration has the power to interpret this legislation. During his first term (2017-2021), Trump issued a regulation under Title IX that restricted the definition of sexual harassment and limited investigations in universities to the cases denounced before certain officials.
The government of Joe Biden (2021-2025) revoked that Trump regulations to protect victims from sexual abuse in university campuses and established protections for the rights of LGBTQ+students.
That policy, however, did not explicitly approach the participation of transgender athletes. Even so, more than half a dozen states governed by Republicans brought the norm to the courts, generating a controversy that Trump knew how to capitalize on his electoral campaign.
During his campaign, Trump promised to “keep men outside women’s sports” and, in the final stretch of the elections, a television ad the use of public funds to finance gender reallocation surgeries in prisons.
Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028
The White House has not clarified how the executive order will affect the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, but Donald Trump said he will try to prevent transgender women from competing. Therefore, as explained, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will transfer the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that reject the “transgender madness.”
“We want them to change everything related to the Olympic Games and this absolutely ridiculous theme, which we should not even be arguing,” he said. Trump also has also ordered the Secretary of the Department of National Security, Kristi Noem, which Visa requests “submitted by men trying to enter fraudulently to the United States are rejected while identifying as women’s athletes “in order to compete in women’s sports.
The US president and other detractors of the participation of transgender athletes in female competitions argue that these athletes have an unfair advantage, an affirmation that the scientific community does not support. A study published in 2017 in Sports Medicine He did not find consistent evidence of athletic superiority, while another of 2023 concluded that many physical differences between the sexes are reduced or disappear with the hormonal therapy of gender statement.
According to this study of 2023, the height or length of the extremities of transgender athletes may vary, but scientists point out that there are no restrictions for senior athletes with high statures or exceptional physical skills.
Measures against the LGTBIQ+ community
This is one of the latest Trump -promoted measures against the LGTBIQ+ community in the United States. The Republican tycoon has already prohibited last week the processes of sex reallocation in children under 19, in particular those that involve chemical and surgical interventions.
Similarly, it has signed decrees to prohibit transgender military from being able to enlist in the Armed Forces; He has eliminated federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI) and has ordered that gender binarism be recognized.
For the gender director of Amnesty International (AI), Karla Gonzales, these measures promoted in recent weeks “follow Trump’s cruel pattern” to build policies “based on intolerance and hate”, particularly towards trans people.
“In their attacks against trans people, either in military service or when trying to redefine sex and gender in an attempt to erase trans people, the Trump administration has made hate and discrimination its agenda,” he said in A statement.
For its part, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted in a statement that these types of measures violate the fundamental rights of trans people not to suffer discrimination under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (PIDCP).
