President Donald Trump knew just what to say at make the audience at University of Alabama graduation ceremony cheer — “men will not play in women’s sports.”
That was part of the message Trump delivered Thursday night to newly minted Crimson Tide alumni.
“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Trump said as the crowd cheered, per Fox News, adding, “No way. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, it’s a 97-3 issue, I think,” Trump said. “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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The president continued his vow to ‘defend women’s sports” 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 — Algeria’s Imane Khelif and 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.
The president also did an impression of two weightlifters — a female weightlifter and a trans weightlifter.
He relayed the story of a female swimmer going up against a trans opponent.
“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.”
The commander-in-chief spoke of the female volleyball players who have been affected by trans inclusion.
“You look at all the volleyball players who have been hurt so badly, that are hit at levels that they’ve never seen before,” Trump said.
Brooke Slusser, a former University of Alabama women’s 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 Women’s Sports executive order in February. The NCAA then changed its gender eligibility policy — only biological women can participate in women’s sports.
