Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a Fox News-hosted town hall event that he would ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports through executive action.
The former president and GOP presidential candidate was asked by a voter about whether he plans to address transgender athletes in women’s athletics.
“It’s such an easy question, and everybody in the room … know[s] that answer, we’re not going to let it happen,” Trump responded.
Earlier this year, the Department of Education released rules changing Title IX, the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination by sex in education programs and schools that get federal money. The rules targeted discrimination based on gender identity for the first time, although they were struck down by the Supreme Court in August….
