Girls First advocate Riley Gaines wrote this for Fox:
Common sense is making a big comeback, especially today, with President Trump signing another executive order to ensure that sports competitions meant for female athletes actually are for women. The order states men are barred from participating in women’s athletic divisions and that entities that “maintain policies, practices, rules, or regulations that permit biological males to compete against biological females or vice-versa in athletic activities violate Title IX and are subject to enforcement action which could include the loss of federal funding.”
It’s amazing that such an executive order is necessary, but it is. The Biden administration, in concert with Democrats in Congress and across the country, has been waging an all-out war against female athletes. Around the country, male athletes have been gaining access to competitions that were meant for females.
I experienced this first hand when the NCAA allowed Lia Thomas—formerly Will Thomas—to swim at the Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving National Championships. Three years prior, he had competed on the men’s team at the same university. Not only did Lia Thomas win a women’s DI national title, robbing that honor from many female Olympians and American record holders, but he was allowed to dress and undress in the women’s locker rooms. The female athletes did not consent to undressing alongside a fully intact male exposing his male genitalia, but the comfort and safety of women were not high up on the NCAA’s priority list.
Fortunately, this blindness to physical reality is at an end. President Trump is standing up for women and female athletes when coaches, college administrators, and sports governing bodies have refused to. He knew it was absurd, unfair, and dangerous to force women to compete against men. He spoke about it consistently on the campaign trail, and pledged to do something about it. Voters heard it and supported him.
And now, just days after taking office, he has made good on this promise. He has told female athletes that their dreams matter. Young girls don’t have to wonder if they are wasting their time training and will be forced into competitions they are doomed to lose because of their sex. They now can feel confident that they will have leagues and rights of their own. On behalf of all these girls, thank you, President Trump, for standing with us.
