The decision by President Donald Trump to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports has triggered what is likely to be a long, complex clash with global sports authorities as the United States counts down to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday barring transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, fulfilling a key campaign promise that also could complicate the

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refused to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” he said in the East Room of the White House before signing the order.

The NCAA is following President Donald Trump’s lead. Just one day after he signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women’s sports, the country’s premier collegiate athletics organization changed its policy to do the same.

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DONALD Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from female events and declared the “war is over”. Trump’s order allows US government agencies to deny money

The new policy, which is effective immediately, limits competition in women’s sports exclusively to athletes assigned female at birth.