Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop males from competing in female sports, and subsequently declared at a press conference in front of national female athletes and other girls and women that “the war on women’s sports is over.”

The “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” order, signed on the 39th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, delivers a firm, direct message to the educational institutions and athletic associations that receive federal funding to keep males out of female sports and their private spaces. The order states this practice ignores the “fundamental biological truths between the two sexes” and deprives women the equal opportunity to participate and excel in sports. 

“This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous,” reads the order. “Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.  It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.” 

President Trump stated, “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women.”

According to a White House fact sheet, many athletic associations have based their policies on the “faulty premise” that males and females can close the athletic gap between them. However, the White House stated this is not true and that men, on average, retain greater muscle mass, strength, and cardiovascular capacity even after gender interventions. 

“Female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to men competing against them in women’s sporting categories,” noted the fact sheet. “In addition to awards and trophies, men have been taking away roster spots, playing time, resources, and opportunities from women. The American people overwhelmingly agree with President Trump – men do not belong in women’s sports.”

The order also upholds Title IX, the 1972 law that protects women from sex-based discrimination in athletic programs that receive federal funds. The order is a complete reversal from Joe Biden’s failed attempt to rewrite Title IX rules to allow men to invade women’s sports, bathrooms, and private spaces. According to the White House, the order also puts a stop to the “dangerous and unfair” invasion of private spaces where females have been forced to “appear unclothed before males.”

The order states that schools will face investigations by the U.S. Department of Education and could lose that funding if they fail to preserve the integrity of female sports.

The White House noted that more than 7,000 women athletes have reached out to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) to change its polices and protect women. Reportedly, the NCAA has responded to President Trump’s order stating its board of governors would review it and take steps in the coming days to align the organization’s policy with the order.

In the order, President Trump also called for convening athletic associations at the White House to hear firsthand the stories of women harmed by males competing in women’s sports, as well as called for changes within the International Olympic Committee to preserve single-sex sports, and visa policies to stop males from falsely entering the United States to play in female sports. 

The order is the latest in a series of other executive orders rooting out the “false” and “corrosive” gender ideology in the federal government, such as recognizing only two genders, banning child medical mutilation, banning divisive topics in K-12 schools, and barring gender politics in the military.

The U.S. House of Representatives also recently passed a bill barring biological men from competing in women’s sports. Currently, at least 26 states have enacted laws that protect women’s sports.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “This commonsense executive order protects women and girls by returning interscholastic sports to the biological reality that men and women are different. So many female athletes have been competitively, physically, and emotionally harmed by policies allowing males into their sports and private spaces. The country has had enough of these hurtful policies and it is time for the Senate and all states to pass laws protecting women and girls.”