Stitt in attendance as Trump signs order banning trans athletes from women's sports
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt was in attendance as President Donald Trump signed an executive order in Washington D.C. on Wednesday that would bar transgender women and girls from playing on school sports teams that correspond with their gender identities.
"We're here to finally bring common sense back to the country. He's going to ban men playing women sports," Stitt says in the video.
Stitt also referenced the Oklahoma bill he signed into law in March 2022 that prevents transgender women from competing in women's sports teams in college and high school. The measure had numerous authors in both the Senate and the House and was often referred to as the "Save Women's Sports Act."
On Wednesday, Trump signed a measure, called the 'No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order,' that would prohibit transgender women and girls from competing in female sports, NBC News reports.
'With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over,' Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him.
The measure is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people Trump has signed since taking office, NBC News reports.
Legal and civil rights experts have said it's not clear Trump has the authority to implement such broad restrictions immediately and unilaterally at the federal level. To formally prevent transgender students from playing school sports, Congress would likely have to amend the 1972 sex discrimination law known as Title IX, or the Department of Education would have to process new regulations.
The question of whether transgender student-athletes have a right to play on their chosen team has remained unresolved by the courts, said Scott Schneider, an employment and education lawyer. For that reason, he said, the president's announcement won't have wide-ranging implications.
"There is no real practical significance to it," he said, referring to the congresswoman's description of the planned executive order. "Absent a court decision in your jurisdiction, or a change in Title IX, the status quo is maintained."
While many states already have restrictions in place to curb or block transgender athletes' participation in school sports, others provide explicit protections for them.
The president and other Republicans in recent years have exaggerated the extent to which transgender youth, who make up only 1.4% of American teenagers according to federal survey data, participate in sports. A 2017 study of 17,000 young people found that about 1 in 10 transgender boys said they played sports, and the statistic is roughly the same for transgender girls.
Still, conservatives including Rep. Nancy Mace, an outspoken opponent of transgender rights from South Carolina, have accused schools with transgender-inclusive policies of trading women's rights for "woke politics."
"Women's sports exist for a reason – because biological differences matter," she said in a statement Tuesday.
The GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill seeking to accomplish the same objective as Trump's planned order. Curbing civil rights for transgender people came up often in Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, and after his victory, it became a point of contention for some Democrats as well.
'No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender,' Trump said in a campaign video two years ago. In the same video, he referred to gender-affirming care as 'chemical, physical and emotional mutilation of our youth.'
The order this week comes after former President Joe Biden tried to bolster protections for queer and transgender students, who face disproportionate harassment and barriers to education, research shows. His administration's efforts, which involved rewriting Title IX, met conservative opposition at every turn.
Just before Trump took office, a federal judge vacated the Biden administration's revisions to the regulations, which temporarily expanded the definition of sexual misconduct in schools in some states to formally include gender identity.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma Gov. Stitt in attendance as Trump signs trans athlete order
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