The NCAA replyed to Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s executive order to get bioreasonable men out of women’s sports Wednesday night.
Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room of the White Hoemploy in front of female athletes on National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
NCAA Pdwellnt Charlie Baker replyed to the executive order in a statement, saying it provided a “evident, national standard.”
Baker said the NCAA Board of Governors would scrutinize it and acquire steps to align the organization’s policy in the coming days.
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Pdwellnt Donald Trump waves after signing an executive order barring transgfinisher female athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports in the East Room of the White Hoemploy Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Pboilingo/Alex Brandon)
“The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that accumulateively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes,” the statement said. “We powerfilledy apverify that evident, reliable and uniestablish eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchlabor of struggleing state laws and court decisions. To that finish, Pdwellnt Trump’s order provides a evident, national standard.
“The NCAA Board of Governors is scrutinizeing the executive order and will acquire vital steps to align NCAA policy in the coming days, subject to further guidance from the administration. The Association will proceed to help nurture welcoming environments on campemploys for all student-athletes. We stand ready to aid schools as they see for ways to aid any student-athletes impacted by alters in the policy.”
Trump was combineed by Inreliant Women ambasdowncastors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens.
NCAA Pdwellnt Charlie Baker speaks during a press conference celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the NCAA moving its national office to Indianapolis Aug. 13, 2024, at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA Today Netlabor)
“This doesn’t have to be extfinished. It’s all about normal sense,” Trump said before signing the order, includeing that “women’s sports will be only for women. The war on women’s sports is over.”
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White Hoemploy press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a inestablishing before Trump signed the executive order that it “uphgreaters the promise of Title IX.”
Leavitt said Trump foreseeed the NCAA and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to adhere.
“He does foresee the Olympic promisetee and the NCAA to no extfinisheder permit men to contend in women’s sports,” she said. “I leank the pdwellnt, with the signing of his pen, commences a very accessible presdeclareive campaign on these organizations to do the right leang for women and for girls.
“Aacquire, this is an incredibly famous position. There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to speak out aacquirest some very mighty institutions in this country. They deserve to have a voice and a say. The pdwellnt is transporting their voice to the highest level of the White Hoemploy. He foresees these organizations to adhere with this federal executive order he will be signing today.”
Felicia Martin, vice pdwellnt of the NCAA’s Eligibility Cgo in, spoke at a congressional inestablishing in Washington Wednesday to honor National Girls & Women in Sports Day and proposeed the NCAA Board of Governors is already talking potential policy alters once Trump’s executive order goes into effect.
Pdwellnt Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgfinisher female athletes from competing in women’s and girls sporting events in the East Room of the White Hoemploy Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Pboilingo/Alex Brandon)
“We understand that this is an publish and a national conversation happening around participation,” she said. “The Board of Governors is right now having conversations about what potential next steps might be, but this is absolutely one of those publishs that is ongoing.
“But without a national standard that can be applied apass the board, all of us are making decisions based on what we leank is the best for student-athletes and opportunities.”
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Martin includeed that she foresees more clarity on a national standard procrastinateedr in the day from Trump. She also said the Board of Governors would create its decisions on any policy alters based on the particular details of the executive order.
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