Surrounded By Young Female Athletes, Donald Trump Bans Men From Women’s Sports

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning men from women’s sports, a historic moment in the fight to protect the integrity of women’s spaces from gender activists and ideologues.

“From now on,” he said to massive applause from those assembled, “women’s sports will be for only women.”

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” he added.

The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by young schoolgirls, female athletes, and advocates, including Independent Women’s Forum ambassadors Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlon, and Peyton Edwards; journalist Sage Steele; Concerned Women for America’s Penny Nance, and others.

“If we have to worry about them, we have a bigger problem,” he joked to his Secret Service agents as the crowd of middle-school-aged girls rushed to his side for the signing. “What a nice picture this is!”

He then proceeded to carefully sign the executive order as the children watched closely, joking to them about his signature: “We have a 10!”

“It is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy,” the executive order reads. “It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”

The Daily Wire spoke with a mother and her young daughters who traveled to the White House from Fauquier County, Virginia to stand with the president while he signed the historic order.

“We are with Moms for Liberty, and we’re here to see President Trump sign the executive order and keep men out of women’s sports! I have three daughters who are athletes,” the mother explained, as her daughters smiled and nodded. They told The Daily Wire they play basketball and that they’re grateful to Trump for standing up for them.

Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer forced to compete against a man, spoke with The Daily Wire outside the White House following the signing, where she shared that she’s “overwhelmed with gratitude.”

“What we saw today is in total contrast to the treatment that we as women have received for the past four years,” she added.

“For three years, the Biden administration stonewalled women across the country,” Gaines told The Daily Wire. “Not even just stonewalled us, he actively worked against us. So to now have a president who displayed such moral clarity, and leadership with this decisive action….I’m just overwhelmed with gratitude. Just every day since January 20, I’ve been thanking God for having mercy, mercy that we certainly don’t deserve.”

“That photo of President Trump, signing the executive order with all of these young girls around him with their whole lives, their futures ahead of them, whether it’s sports or not, is one of the most powerful photos I imagine we’ll see in his entire presidency” she added.

Earlier on Wednesday, The Daily Wire pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on whether men who identify as women will be able to participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

“He does expect the Olympic Committee and the NCAA to no longer allow men to compete in women’s sports,” Leavitt told The Daily Wire. “I think the President, with the signing of his pen, starts a very public pressure campaign on these organizations to do the right thing for women and for girls across the country.”

“This is an incredibly popular position,” Leavitt said of Wednesday’s order. “There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to speak out against some very powerful institutions in this country. They deserve to have a voice and a say. The President is bringing their voice to the highest level at the White House this afternoon, and he expects these organizations to comply with this federal executive order that he’ll be signing today.”