US President Donald Trump took a decree on Wednesday, February 5, which seeks to prevent transgender athletes from practicing female sports, an additional attack on this community which he targets particularly since his return to power. “With this decree, the war against women’s sport is over,” promised the republican billionaire by signing this text during a ceremony at the White House, to the applause of several dozen female athletes. Concretely, its text plans to cut the federal state subsidies to schools which would allow transgender students to be members of female sports teams. The president took the opportunity to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee (CIO), while the United States must welcome the next summer Olympics. “In Los Angeles, in 2028, my administration will not remain crossed arms to watch men beat women female athletes,” he said, repeating a lie of which he is customary, according to which the Olympic boxing champion, The Algerian Imane Khelif, would be male. His government will “refuse all visa requests made by men who try to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as female athletes,” he said.
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Donald Trump signs a decree aimed at preventing transgender athletes from participating in female sports
