Trump signs executive order banning trans athletes from high school, college sports

Donald Trump is trying to distract you from the billionaire neo-Nazi immigrant that he has plundering the federal government by trying to kneecap the literally 100 or so trans athletes competing in high school and college sports.

Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that he thinks will bar trans athletes from being able to compete; get ready for the flood of lawsuits.

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said at a signing ceremony.

Far from it.

Dude disgustingly used National Girls and Women in Sports Day as the backdrop, as House Republican shrew Nancy Mace repeatedly used the slur “tranny” to refer to trans Americans in a House committee hearing, because that’s what this is really all about.

The order authorizes the Department of Education to penalize schools that allow transgender athletes to compete, citing noncompliance with Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination in schools.

Any school found in violation could potentially be ineligible for federal funding.

Funny thing to point out here: what happens if Trump follows through on his pledge to dismantle the Department of Education?

They’d have to figure that out later.

Dummkopfs.

NCAA president Charlie Baker said in a statement on Wednesday that the executive order “provides a clear, national standard.”

“The NCAA Board of Governors is reviewing the executive order and will take necessary steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration,” Baker said. “The Association will continue to help foster welcoming environments on campuses for all student-athletes. We stand ready to assist schools as they look for ways to support any student-athletes affected by changes in the policy.”

The national civil rights organization Lambda Legal is already moving in the direction of instituting legal action against the order, and we can presume also the suits at the NCAA.

“Make no mistake, multiple states have attempted to enact similar bans. We’ve confronted them in court repeatedly and have won repeatedly. There is no reason to think a national ban will avoid being similarly squashed,” Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Carl Charles said in a statement.

“We are appalled, and in fact disgusted, at this administration’s insatiable appetite for fearmongering about and relentless targeting of this most vulnerable population. And we are neither cowed nor deterred. We and our partners are standing together to protect those rights already won, and fight for those still needed, to allow the LGBTQ+ community and everyone living with HIV to live freely and safely as their full and authentic selves, a freedom everyone in this country should be able to take for granted,” Charles said.

We also heard from U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a lawyer and former constitutional-law professor, on the EO.

“There is actually legislation that’s going to come up that the Republicans are promoting to do what the president’s going to do by executive order today,, and I expect that legislation will fail, because this is something that school boards and college boards of trustees can handle,” Kaine said.

“I don’t think people expect Congress to get in and decide, you know, questions about who can play on sport teams. School boards are perfectly able to solve this issue. College boards of trustees are perfectly able to solve this issue,” Kaine said. “I thought the Republican Party was a small government party. I mean, at least that’s what I was led to believe. But the idea that, no, we got to have a federal solution to everything, people like school boards can figure this out.”