Trump set to ban transgender girls from women’s sports

| 6 Feb 2025 1:25 PM IST

President Donald Trump will sign an executive action that bans transgender female athletes from participating in women’s sports, setting up a legal and political battle over an issue that became a flash point in the 2024 presidential election. Trump will finalize the measure, which allows the Department of Education to investigate schools and possibly withhold their federal funding, at an event on Wednesday, according to a White House official.

The administration will also look to roll back rules passed by former President Joe Biden’s administration interpreting Title IX provisions to offer protection for transgender students. And the Trump administration is warning that athletes coming into the country on visas denoting a sex other than that assigned at birth could be investigated for fraud.

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