President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that bans transgender athletes who were assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sports.
  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    3·
    3 hours ago

    For anyone wondering how the heck he can do it given sports are private entities its because its particular to college teams which of course is what feeds the pro teams:

    “The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies, including the Justice and Education departments, 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.”

  • teft@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 hours ago

    And while everyone focuses on this today DOGE will continue taking a hatchet to the government.

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
      51·
      4 hours ago

      well, no, but he does have control over the Title IX funding without which many state, and local sports teams/leagues/classes wouldn’t have the money to operate at all, and he does control the immigration and transportation departments where he can decide for just about any reason to deny athletes entry to the united states for the olympics

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    251·
    6 hours ago

    There are like less than a dozen trans athletes in the NCAA. Probably not even a hundred trans high school athletes.

    It has nothing to do with enjoying women’s sports. You don’t see these people posting things celebrating women’s sports - just outrage bait over Lia Thomas. (I would have no idea who she was if Facebook didn’t regularly spam me with photoshopped pictures of her and horrific 1000+ comment threads)

    And if he’s dismantling DOE, I bet Title 9 becomes a thing of the past. We have to force schools to support girls athletics. There are regulations such that you have to have equity - eg, you either have to have a boys and a girls football team, or offer some sort of alternative sport. Even as things are, your mediocre boys football team is going to have so much more cash and love pumped into it (cough small town southern states have a quiet epidemic of pedophile coaches, diddling is a-ok if you bring back championships - like this is a geniune Q-anon tier conspiracy involving superintendents and was being investigated by the federal government)

    “Women’s sports” solely exist as a cudgel for these people.