President Donald Trump is not taking his foot off the necks of transgender athletes.
Trump appeared to mock transgender athletes during a University of Alabama graduation speech, referring to them as ‘a transitions person.’
Before he took to the stage, Trump was introduced by former Alabama coach Nick Saban.
While at the podium on Thursday night, Trump started off his speech by saying, “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America.”
His speech would soon take a different turn as he made sure that the young people knew his stance on transgender athletes.
“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Donald Trump said.
“No way. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, it’s a 97-3 issue, I think. No, men will not be playing in women’s sports. I said that, and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know. It’s done.”
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Later in the speech, Trump went back to the subject and mocked the Democrats for allowing trans athletes in women’s sports and the trans athletes themselves in a lengthy rant.
Trump also discussed the Paris Olympics women’s boxing competitions, which caused a lot of controversy. Two gold medalists were previously disqualified from international competitions for failing gender eligibility tests.
Neither Algeria’s Imane Khelif nor Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting identifies as transgender.
“They had a great champion a female boxer, and after one punch she walked back to the corner and said ‘I can’t get hit like that, I’ve never been hit like that before,” Trump said.
Just when you thought he was finished, Trump took aim at transgender swimmers, telling a story of a swimmer who he joked was “windburned” by a trans opponent.
Graduates go WILD for President @realDonaldTrump's pledge protect female athletes:
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"As long as I'm President, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will NOT play in women's sports." pic.twitter.com/NdukYheyMe
“One young lady, she was going to set the record, she fought all her life to set the record,” Trump said. “Then she looks to the right and she sees the same thing but there’s a person next to her who’s a giant… that was a person that transitioned and he had the wingspan of Wilt’ the stilt’ Chamberlain.”
President Donald Trump Signed a Controversial Executive Order On Transgender Athletes
President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14201 in February, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
It aimed to prohibit transgender women and girls from participating in female sports across all educational levels.
The executive order also set forth new U.S. policies to rescind federal funding from educational programs that allow transgender women and girls to compete on female teams and oppose transgender women’s and girls’ participation in female sports.
