President Trump To Sign Executive Order To Keep Men Out Of Women’s Sports

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday to keep men out of women’s sports, two people with knowledge of the signing shared with The Daily Wire.

The president will sign the executive action at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, surrounded by advocates who have fought against gender ideology and for the preservation of women’s spaces. It is not immediately clear whether that order will focus on K-12 sports, collegiate sports, or a broad ban on men competing as trans-identifying females in women’s sports.

SCOOP: Tomorrow, Donald Trump will sign an executive order on keeping men out of women’s sports, @realDailyWire has learned.

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 4, 2025

Trump has long promised to ban men who identify as women from participating in female sports, citing high-profile stories such as that of Riley Gaines, an athlete forced to compete against a man who identified as a female swimmer named Lia Thomas. Gaines, who did not respond to a request for comment, will address the Republican Study Committee on gender issues Wednesday, The Daily Wire reported.

During the 2024 election cycle, Trump and his team embraced this issue, voicing the concerns of American parents across the country — that their daughters’ private spaces were being invaded by men, that their opportunities were being taken away, and that all of this was being done in the name of gender ideology.

Leading up to Election Day, Trump advisors told The Daily Wire that the messaging was reaching women, specifically suburban women, the very same population that Democrats were targeting with aggressive abortion messaging. The Wall Street Journal predicted that trans-identifying males in women’s sports would be the 2024 sleeper issue.

Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly stated that Kamala Harris and Democrats were pushing a dangerous ideology that Americans didn’t want. He argued repeatedly that the far-left policies the Democratic Party embraced were “crazy.” His assertions were based on polling, both internal and external, as The Daily Wire reported, showing that Americans don’t want these radical transgender policies.

“The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergartens, or providing puberty blockers to young children who have no idea what a puberty blocker is,” he said in 2022, drawing laughs from the crowd. “Neither do I, by the way. Neither do most of the people in the audience, as you smile.”

Trump specifically promised to “keep men out of women’s sports.” That messaging, and the messaging of Republican candidates across the country, caused at least three major Democrats to reverse their stances on men in women’s sports in the days ahead of the election, in Texas, Alaska, and Pennsylvania.

Wednesday is the 39th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day.