It took an executive order from President Donald Trump for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to do what is right.
On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Trump signed an executive order on “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The order reads, “Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
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