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Donald Trump is outlining how his executive order will be felt across the US in the coming years.

Turning to the 2028 Olympics, which will be hosted in Los Angeles, Trump says his administration “will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes”.

“It’s going to end and it’s ending right now,” he adds. 

“Nobody’s going to be able to do a damn thing about it. Because when I speak, I speak with authority.”

He also says the US “will deny all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter while identifying themselves as women athletes”. 

‘The war on women’s sports is over’, Trump says as he signs executive order

Donald Trump has just signed an executive order banning trans athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sport.

“We will defend the proud tradition of female athletes,” he says.

“Women’s sports will only be for women.”

He says the order is putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that “if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms”, they will be investigated and risk losing federal funding. 

“There will be no federal funding. So this will effectively end the attack on female athletes,” he adds.

What does the order do?

Speaking to our US network NBC this morning, White House Officials said they expected headlines about today’s executive order to use the word transgender, “but this has nothing to do with that.” 

The order, they said, aims to protect women’s access to safe and fair athletic opportunities, and it will do that in two ways.

First, officials said, the order rolls back the Biden administration’s guidance on a civil rights law that prevents sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.

Under that guidance, schools were required to allow trans students’ to access school sports teams and sex-segregated facilities that align with their gender identities. 

Trump’s order will, instead, bar students assigned male at birth from participating in girls’ and women’s sports and using women’s restrooms.

Second, officials said, the administration will work with sports governing bodies, like the International Olympic Committee, to ensure the guidance is followed in non-educational settings.