President Donald Trump issued an executive order On February 5, he prohibits transgender women in the sport of women in any institution receiving federal funds.
Baptist pastor and Ohio State Rep. Gary Click (R-Fremont) “The consistor and the main driver with Ohio transgender sports ban,” he said the invitation to the White House and participated in the signing of the ordinance with activists against Transgender from all over the country.
The executive order changes the language in Title IX – A breakthrough case from 1972, which prohibits sexual discrimination in public schools and universities – in order to reduce federal funds for institutions that allow women and girls to compete in sports terms. It took place after passing on January 14 at the American house Ketowy ban on transsexual women in sport.
Ohio House Bill (HB) 68 – which also sponsored a click – was adopted in legislation, vetoed by Governor Mike Dewine, with a veto replaced with a republican overpokomot in January 2024.
The Act entered into force in August 2025, showing transgender women before competing women’s sports and prohibiting legal access to health care confirming sex for trans ohioans under 18 years of age.
Signing of the order
A few hours earlier Trump signed the contract publiclyThe press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt read the prepared press statement.
“The madness of gender ideology has come to an end,” she told journalists.
After adopting the podium, Trump called the movement “the latest effort to regain our culture.”
“They only want transgender,” he said. “And if they continue, I think we will end up eventually – well, it will not matter, because we will never go with them and just win the election.”
“Nobody will be able to do it damn, because when I speak, we talk to authority,” added Trump.
Anti-Transgender legislation in Ohio
Click-which obtained a scientific degree of religious education in the unacceptable central and western part of the Baptist College in 1990-he was the main motor of the majority of state anti-transgender regulations since he was elected for the first time to represent the 88th Congress District of Ohio in 2020.
Most importantly, he is the main architect of HB 68, who also consumed language from the original “Save Women’s Sports Act”, prohibiting transsexuals in competing in the sport of women from kindergarten to studies.
In 2024, the name Click was either a sponsor or nine co-control of 14 elements of anti-transgender regulations that appeared before the legislators in Ohio Statehouse. This legislation included a bill that would require transgender persons to disclose their previous legal names in order to apply for the office and the act that would prohibit the results of drags and sex in most public places.
He also sponsored Ohio Senate Bill (SB) 104 – which will require transgender people to apply the bathroom, which fits the gender marker in the original birth certificate – and HB 8who will require LGBTQ+ school students to parents or guardians when he takes part in April.
Click maintains close relationships with Ohio Christian Virtue Center (CCV) -Swry-wing Christian lobbying organization, which was designated as a group of hate anti-LGBTQ+ Southern Center of Poverty Law In 2015-2016.
He also worked closely with an anti-wire, anti-transgender organization Ethical care partners To organize public testimonies from outside the state, anti-transgender activists Chloe Cole, Prisha Mosley T and former collegial swimmer Riley Gaines.
Gaines was observable behind President Trump when he signed the order.
In a statement on February 5, Click said that he was “honored” to take part in signing and that “America wakes up with the vocation.”
Aiming at a handful of athletes
During the Senate panel in December 2024, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker told the legislators There are less than 10 transgender athletes competing at a collegiate level more than 500,000 throughout the country.
February 6 NCAA announced the reversal of his 15-year policyProhibition of all transgender women in competition in women’s sport.
In 2023, a representative for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Newsweek said Only five transsexual girls from kindergarten to high school played in sports teams.
In addition to the general sports ban for transgender women, the president also directed Internal Security Department (DHS) Refuse entering the border to transgender women if they “try to participate in women’s sports.”
The order also recommends the Secretary of State of the USA to exert direct pressure on International Olympic Committee (IOC) To prohibit transgender people from competition in games. However, far -reaching language language can affect transgender women looking for entrance to the US for any reason.
Only one transgender woman competed in the Olympic Games: Laurel Hubbard competed in the women’s weightlifting category during the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
She didn’t put on the podium. Ding
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