President Donald Trump knew just what to say at make the audience at University of Alabama graduation ceremony cheer â âmen will not play in womenâs Sports.â
That was part of the message Trump delivered Thursday night to newly minted Crimson Tide alumni.
âAs long as Iâm president, we will always protect womenâs Sports. Men will not play in womenâs Sports,â Trump said as the crowd cheered, per Fox News, adding, âNo way. They say itâs an 80-20 issue. No, itâs a 97-3 issue, I think,â Trump said. âNo, men will not be playing in womenâs Sports. I said that, and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know. Itâs done.âÂ
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The president continued his vow to âdefend womenâs Sportsâ by giving examples of when women were wrong ef in their own Sports competitions.
One example was the boxing competition at the Paris Olympics. Two gold medalists were allowed to compete even though they were disqualified from international competitions for failing gender eligibility tests previously.
Neither boxer â Algeriaâs Imane Khelif and Taiwanâs Lin Yu-ting â identifies as transgender.
âThey had a great champion, a female boxer, and after one punch she walked back to the corner and said, âI canât get hit like that, Iâve never been hit like that before,â Trump said.
The president also did an impression of two weightlifters â a female weightlifter and a trans weightlifter.
He relayed the story of a female swimmer going up against a trans opponent.
âOne young lady, she was going to set the record, she fought all her life to set the record,â Trump said. âThen she looks to the right, and she sees the same thing, but thereâs a person next to her whoâs a giant ⌠that was a person that transitioned, and he had the wingspan of Wilt âthe Stiltâ Chamberlain.â
The commander-in-chief spoke of the female volleyball players who have been affected by trans inclusion.
âYou look at all the volleyball players who have been hurt so badly, that are hit at levels that theyâve never seen before,â Trump said.
Brooke Slusser, a former University of Alabama womenâs volleyball player, had to share a locker room and bedroom with a trans athlete when she transferred from the university to San Jose State University. In a lawsuit, Slusser alleges she was made to share those spaces with trans teammate Blaire Fleming without being told Fleming was biologically a male.
Slusser returned Texas after the alleged backlash and harassment she faced after filing her lawsuit.
Trump signed the Keeping Men Out of Womenâs Sports executive order in February. The NCAA then changed its gender eligibility policy â only biological women can participate in womenâs Sports.
