The order calls itself “keeping men out of women’s sports”
United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday, an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes from practicing women’s sports, in another attack on the community that has had since returned to power.
“With this executive order, the war against women’s sport ended,” the Republican promised to sign the text in a ceremony in the White House, under the applause of several dozens of female athletes.
The order, entitled “Keeping men out of women’s sports”, gives federal agencies, including the Departments of Justice and Education, wide latitude to ensure that entities that receive federal financing comply with Title IX in alignment with the Trump Vision View , who plays “sex” as the genre that someone was designated at birth.
The 1972 Federal Law, known as Title IX, prohibits discrimination based on sex in sports programs that receive federal funding.
The moment of the order coincided with the National Day of Girls and Women in Sport and is the last of a series of Trump executive actions directed to transgender people.
The Order authorizes, for example, the Department of Education to penalize schools that allow the competition of transgender athletes, invoking non -compliance with Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination in schools. Any educational establishment that is considered in violation may be potentially ineligible for federal financing.
The Order also requires that private sports bodies meet in the White House so that the president can hear personally “the stories of female athletes who have suffered lifelong injuries, who were silenced and forced to bathe with men and to compete with men in fields of athletics across the country. ”
The measure is the latest of Trump administration to limit the rights of the transgender population.
The previous ones tried to make the federal government reject the idea that people can transition to a different genre from the one attributed to them to birth. This has implications in areas such as passports and prisons.
It also opened the door to the exclusion of transgender members from military service, appealed to the end of federal health insurance and other gender affirmation financing for transgender people under 19 and restricted the way in which gender lessons can be taught in schools.
The transgender people have already sued several of the policies and it is likely to challenge others in court.
Civil rights lawyers dealing with cases stated that in some cases Trump’s orders violate the laws adopted by Congress and the protections of the Constitution – and that exceed the president’s authority.
This executive order arises after the House of Representatives of the United States approved a bill a bill that prohibited young transgender from participating in women’s sports at colleges and universities that receive public funding.
This bill was approved by 218 votes in favor – all Republicans and two democrats – and 206 against, but must still be approved by the Senate, which has a conservative majority.
The text prohibits transgender people who were born in males but began to identify themselves as women to participate in collective sports according to their gender identity, stating that “sex will be recognized only according to the reproductive and genetic biology of a person at the time of birth “.
Republicans, who control the US Congress after the November general elections, used the issue as an electoral weapon against the Democrats in these elections.
This bill had already been approved by the House of Representatives during the previous legislature, but at that time the Democrats, who controlled the Senate, did not submit it to the appreciation of that Legislative Chamber.
