Posted on 10/17/2024 12:27:41 PM PDT by NetAddicted
During a town hall with female voters, Donald Trump promised to ban men from competing in women’s sports, citing concerns over physical advantages and safety risks, if he’s re-elected next month.
(LifeSiteNews) — Donald Trump told Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner this week that he will ensure that gender confused men are not allowed to play sports against women athletes.
“You just ban it,” he said. “It’s a man playing in the (women’s) game.”
Trump made the remarks during a town hall Wednesday night that featured an exclusively female audience. Faulkner had asked them to raise their hands if they were “worried about biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports,” at which the entire room lifted their arms in agreement.
Male competitors playing against women’s teams has become a particularly dangerous fad in recent years.
As reported by LifeSiteNews in February, a girls basketball squad in Massachusetts forfeited a game at halftime because a gender-confused male player on the opposing team had injured three of its players, causing the remaining teammates to fear for their safety.
Just this month the University of Nevada women’s volleyball team forfeited a match against San Jose State instead of taking the court because a male – whose spikes reach an estimated 80 miles per hour – is on their roster.
In 2022, a female high school volleyballer in North Carolina suffered a concussion after a “transgender” player from the other team hit her on the head with a ball traveling roughly 70 miles per hour.
Trump’s promise to ban males from competing in women’s sports via executive action comes as his campaign has issued several attack ads exposing Kamala Harris’ embrace of it.
READ: University of Nevada women’s volleyball team forfeits match instead of facing ‘transgender’ opponent
“Kamala even supports letting biological men compete against our girls in their sports!” the ad recalls.
The ad also shines light on her support for sex change surgeries for inmates and incarcerated illegal aliens.
Trump further told Faulkner that he is worried about the “physical” advantage men have over women.
“Look at what’s happened in swimming. Look at the records that are being broken,” he said, alluding to swimmer William “Lia” Thomas’ victories against female competitors.
Although Trump himself supports homosexual “marriage” and is endorsed by the pro-LGBT Log Cabin Republicans, he has continually promised to keep gender confused athletes out of women’s sports.
Meanwhile, the former president drew criticism from social conservatives this week when he told John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, that Republicans “don’t want transgender operations [for children] without parental consent.’’
Trump had previously said that he would “stop” all such surgeries for minors without any qualification or exception regarding parental approval.
Its a no-brainer
It’s going to inevitably go to the SCOTUS. I wonder if it’ll be 6 to 3 or something else
How would he do this?
“How would he do this?”
Easy - cut off the funding.
I still can’t find, in that pesky constitution thingie, where the fed was granted the right to regulate sports......
Considering how often what he says gets twisted in the retelling, I dont know what exactly he said or how he said it, but as President he has no authority, no right to do any such thing.
You’ve overlooked the fact that — as Joe Sobran liked to point out — the Constitution has no rôle in our current form of government.
C'mon, Republicans, get your act together. Women=Men. There's absolutely no difference. (Although there are "57 Varieties" of sexual identity.)
It's the Democrats' "Heinz Ketchup Theory" of sexuality.
IANAL but I imagine the 14th Amendment would apply. Trump wouldn’t say this if he didn’t have the authority to change it.
It’s right next to the part where it says they can subsidize them. In other words, it isn’t there. Just bringing attention to it will help, as will even threatening to cut funding. Congress will fight him on this.
‘“physical” advantage men have over women.’
Why is “that” framed in that way? Men do have a physical advantage over women in nearly every sport; there might even be a “physical” advantage.
Johnson and staff better have the bills written and ready for votes.
Trump+7
It would basically end all women's sports in government-funded schools.
While he was President the DOJ issued very clear rulings about the application of civil rights laws to women’s sports. So, yes — he DOES have the authority to do some of these things in areas where Congress has named the DOJ as the executive branch department responsible for enforcing federal statutes.
While I share his sentiment, I am not sure how the government “bans” who participates in sports. This is one of those things that sounds good, but I am not sure practical it is.
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Sounds more like a state issue than federal. But it's a great state issue.
We want a law to be passed.
No executive order.
The Supreme Court has pretty much said “we are not here to make laws anymore”
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