{"id":38047,"date":"2025-02-04T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38047"},"modified":"2025-02-04T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:09:11","slug":"trump-to-ban-transgender-girls-women-from-female-sports-events-white-house-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38047","title":{"rendered":"Trump to ban transgender girls, women from female sports events, White House official says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, a White House official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The order, entitled &#8220;Keeping Men out of Women&#8217;s Sports,&#8221; would fulfill a pledge Trump made during the 2024 presidential campaign. It was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump&#8217;s administration has taken aim broadly at transgender rights since taking office. Officials have already started&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-military-trying-remove-transgender-service-members-legal-filing-says-2025-02-04\/\"><u>taking steps<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to remove at least one transgender service member from the U.S. military, and have turned away transgender applicants, according to an emergency legal filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-ban-transgender-girls-women-female-sports-events-white-house-official-says-2025-02-04\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, a White House official said. The order, entitled &#8220;Keeping Men out of Women&#8217;s Sports,&#8221; would fulfill a pledge Trump made during the 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2381,1558,3306,1395,1230,2800],"class_list":["post-38047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-ban","tag-officials","tag-sports","tag-transgender","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38049,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions\/38049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}