New Administration Targets Transgender Athletes
On February 5, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” setting out the administration’s policy to “rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities” and to “oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly.” The order follows a prior order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which directed federal agencies to enforce laws governing sex-based rights and protections to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes and rejected the application of Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) to Title IX. It also follows the recent Dear Colleague Letter from the Office for Civil Rights, which confirmed that OCR will enforce the 2020 Title IX Rules.
