Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Transgender Athletes From Women's Sports

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports.

The order provides guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will enlist the Department of Education to investigate high schools thought to be non-compliant.

Republicans say it restores fairness to sports but LGBT advocacy and human rights organisations have described the move as discriminatory.

The order, which goes into effect immediately, largely covers high school, universities and grassroots sports.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday that will block transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. With this latest executive order, Trump will address his campaign promise to “keep men out of women’s sports” and build on the policy he outlined on his first day in office, calling on the federal government to only recognize two sexes: male and female. FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT “President Trump will uphold the promise of Title IX and end the dangerous and...