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New Indian Express
6 days ago
- Sport
- New Indian Express
Chennai discus thrower Krishna qualifies for NCAA Outdoor C'ships in USA
CHENNAI: IN a first, Chennai's Krishna Jayasankar becomes the first woman from India to qualify for the United States' National Collegiate Athletics Association's (NCAA) Outdoor Championships, set to happen at Eugene, Oregon on June 14. The 22-year old earned qualification with a throw of 55.61metres in the NCAA's west conference's first round of qualifying which took place at Austin, Texas on Saturday. That put her amongst the top 12, which in turn earned her a qualification berth in the collegiate meet in Eugene. She currently is a junior student at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Krishna, who is the daughter of Indian basketball players C Jayasankar Menon and Prasanna Jayasankar, earlier studied at the SBOA school and junior college in Chennai. She had won national-level medals in both shot put and discus throw. After meeting Jamaican track-and-field coach Michael Wessel at Tenvic Sports in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, Krishna moved to Jamaica with him to train, during the lockdown. In 2021, she became the first Indian thrower to be offered an academic and athletic scholarship from the University of Texas at El Paso. In March this year, she set the national record for the indoor shot put, with a throw of 16.03m in the Mountain West Indoor track and field championship in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Al Jazeera
06-02-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Trump signs order to bar trans women and girls from female sports
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bar transgender women from competing in girls' and women's sports. Under the order signed on Wednesday, federal government funding will be denied to educational institutes that allow transgender athletes to participate in female-category sports and use female locker rooms. The order also directs Trump's administration to promote the sex-based female sports category at international organisations and convene representatives of major athletic organisations and governing bodies to promote 'policies that are fair and safe, in the best interests of female athletes.' 'We are putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice: If you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding,' Trump said at a signing ceremony attended by dozens of women and girls, referring to a 1972 law that bars sex discrimination in education. Declaring an end to 'war on women's sport, Trump said his administration would not 'stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.' 'We're just not going to let it happen, and it's going to end and it's ending right now and no nobody is going to be able to do a damn thing about it because when I speak, we speak with authority.' Trump also said he would push the International Olympic Committee, which has left the issue of trans people's participation in sport to international governing bodies, to explicitly endorse sex-based sports categories before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 'We want them to change everything having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject,' the US president said. Trans women's participation in sport has been a lightning rod in the US culture wars in recent years, though the number of athletes involved is small. National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel in December that he knew of fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 520,000 competing at educational institutes nationwide. Opinion polls have shown growing public opposition to trans women competing amid high-profile controversies involving athletes such as college swimmer Lia Thomas, who won the NCAA Division I national championship in 2022 before being barred from women's events by World Aquatics. In a 2023 Gallup poll, 69 percent of Americans said transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that align with their sex, a seven-point rise compared to 2021. Baker, NCAA president, welcomed Trump's order for setting a 'clear, national standard.' 'We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,' Baker said in a statement. '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,' he added. 'The Association will continue to help foster welcoming environments on campuses for all student-athletes.' Athlete Ally, an LGBT advocacy group, said it was saddened that trans youth would 'no longer be able to know the joy of playing sports as their full and authentic selves.' We've known this day was likely to occur for a long time, as this administration continues to pursue simple solutions to complex issues, often resulting in animus towards the most marginalized communities in our country,' the group said in a statement. 'Despite this executive order, we will continue to choose love, acceptance and curiosity with anyone interested in creating a future of sports where everyone belongs. We will continue to work with sporting bodies to expand access to the life saving power of sports whenever and wherever possible.' GLADD, one of the biggest LGBTQ rights organisations in the US, condemned Trump's order as 'inaccurate and incoherent'. 'All women and girls, including transgender women and girls, should be welcome to play sports if they want, make decisions about their own bodies, be hired for jobs they are qualified for, and be free from lawless attacks by extremists in elected office,' the group said in a statement. 'Anti-LGBTQ politicians with a record of abusing and silencing women and stripping their health care have zero credibility in any conversation about protecting women and girls.' Trump has signed four executive orders directed at trans people since his January 20 inauguration, including a proclamation to only recognise two sexes, a ban on trans people from serving openly in the military, and an order defunding gender transitions procedures for people under age 19.
South China Morning Post
05-02-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Trump signs order seeking to ban transgender athletes from women's sports
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday attempting to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports, a directive that supporters say will restore fairness but critics say infringes on the rights of a tiny minority of athletes. The order directs the US Department of Justice to ban transgender girls and women from taking part in female school sports under Trump's interpretation of Title IX, a law against sex discrimination in education. 'The war on women's sports is over,' Trump said at a signing ceremony with dozens of women and girls aligned behind him. 'My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.' The order, which is likely to face legal challenges, calls for 'immediate enforcement' nationwide. It threatens to cut off federal funding for any school that allows transgender women or girls to compete in female-designated sporting competitions. The order would affect only a small number of athletes. The president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association told a Senate panel in December he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 520,000 competing at 1,100 member schools.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump to sign order banning transgender women from female sports
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports, according to White House officials. The order will provide guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will enlist the Department of Education to investigate high schools thought to be non-compliant. Republicans say it restores fairness to sports but LGBT advocacy and human rights organisations have described the move as discriminatory. The order, expected to be signed on Wednesday, will largely cover high school, universities and grassroots sports. A number of sporting governing bodies, including swimming, athletics and golf, have banned transgender women from competing in the female category at elite level if they have gone through male puberty. Transgender women banned from top golf tours World Athletics bans transgender women According to White House officials who briefed reporters on Wednesday morning, this latest order will empower the Department of Education to investigate how schools implement Title IX, a US law that bans sex discrimination in federally funded education programmes. An administration official said that the executive order will reverse the position of the Biden administration which in April last year said that LGBT students would be protected by federal law, although it did not give specific guidance on transgender athletes. Additionally, the White House plans to bring in sporting bodies - such as the National Collegiate Athletics Association, or NCAA - to come to the White House to meet female athletes and their parents to discuss concerns. The official said the US would do all it can to prevent transgender athletes from competing against females in International Olympic Committee competitions that take place on US soil. The White House officials described the policies as being broadly popular with Americans and critical to ensuring "fairness" for women in sports, as well as a safety issue. In a statement, Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said that the order "exposes young people to harassment and discrimination, emboldening people to question the gender of kids who don't fit a narrow view of how they're supposed to dress or look". "For so many students, sports are about finding somewhere to belong," Ms Robinson added. "Not partisan policies that make life harder for them." Less than 1% of the population over the age of 13 in the US are transgender, according to a study by the UCLA Williams Institute, and the number playing sport is smaller. On Trump's first day in office on 20 January, he signed a separate order calling for the federal government to officially define sex as either being male or female.
BBC News
05-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Trump to sign order banning transgender women from female sports
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports, according to White House officials. The order will provide guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will enlist the Department of Education to investigate high schools thought to be non-compliant. Republicans say it restores fairness to sports but LGBT advocacy and human rights organisations have described the move as discriminatory. The order, expected to be signed on Wednesday, will largely cover high school, universities and grassroots sports. A number of sporting governing bodies, including swimming, athletics and golf, have banned transgender women from competing in the female category at elite level if they have gone through male women banned from top golf toursWorld Athletics bans transgender womenAccording to White House officials who briefed reporters on Wednesday morning, this latest order will empower the Department of Education to investigate how schools implement Title IX, a US law that bans sex discrimination in federally funded education administration official said that the executive order will reverse the position of the Biden administration which in April last year said that LGBT students would be protected by federal law, although it did not give specific guidance on transgender the White House plans to bring in sporting bodies - such as the National Collegiate Athletics Association, or NCAA - to come to the White House to meet female athletes and their parents to discuss official said the US would do all it can to prevent transgender athletes from competing against females in International Olympic Committee competitions that take place on US White House officials described the policies as being broadly popular with Americans and critical to ensuring "fairness" for women in sports, as well as a safety a statement, Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said that the order "exposes young people to harassment and discrimination, emboldening people to question the gender of kids who don't fit a narrow view of how they're supposed to dress or look"."For so many students, sports are about finding somewhere to belong," Ms Robinson added. "Not partisan policies that make life harder for them."Less than 1% of the population over the age of 13 in the US are transgender, according to a study by the UCLA Williams Institute, and the number playing sport is Trump's first day in office on 20 January, he signed a separate order calling for the federal government to officially define sex as either being male or female.
