President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” he said in a signing ceremony in the White House East Room on Wednesday.
Trump announced the order as dozens of women and girls stood behind him.
“If you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding,” he said, referring to the 1972 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding.
