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President Donald Trump has stirred his heart University of Alabama The graduates reaffirmed their promise to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
In his opening speech at the university graduation ceremony on Thursday night, Trump shut out the school’s SEC champion women’s track and field team, and then “firing the loud applause by swearing.” Protecting women’s sports. ”
“As long as I am president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men don’t play women’s sports,” Trump said before the crowd erupted in cheers for the loudest and longest applause of the night.
“No way. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, I think it’s a 97-3 issue,” Trump said. “No, men don’t play in women’s sports. I said that. You know, I categorized it with a very strong executive order. That’s over.”
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Later in the speech, Trump went back to the subject and laughed at Democrats for allowing women’s sports trans athletes and trans athletes themselves with long rants.
In this section of the speech, Trump also discussed women’s boxing competitions at the Parisio Philosophy. This included two gold medalists who were previously disqualified from international competition due to failure in gender eligibility tests. However, neither boxer, Algerian Iman Kelif or Taiwan’s Lin Yu Ointing has identified him as transgender.
“They had a great champion, a female boxer. After one punch, she went back to the corner and said, “I can’t take that kind of hit.
At one point, Trump did physical impersonation of a female weight lifter and a trans weight lifter, recreating a scenario in which a woman loses competition from her trans opponent.
Trump then targeted transgender swimmers, saying the story of the joked swimmer was “windburn” by his trans opponent.
“One young woman, she was going to set a record, she fought her life to record her life,” Trump said. “Then she turns to the right and she sees the same thing, but next to her there is a giant person… it was a transitional person, and he had the wingspan of “stilt ” Chamberlain.” ”
Trump made similar references to the weightlifting and swimmer scenario in June 2023 While talking at the North Carolina Republican Congress in Greensboro.
On Thursday, Trump also referred to female volleyball players affected by trans-inclusion.
“You see all the volleyball players who are so badly hurt, and you’re hit at a level they’ve never seen before,” Trump said.
One of Brooke Slisser, a former University of Alabama women’s volleyball player, entered a situation where she had to share a locker and bedroom with a trans athlete when she moved from university to San Jose State in 2023.
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Alumni listened to President Donald Trump’s speech at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1, 2025. Trump’s remarks were the day before the official opening ceremony. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
Thrusser later left San Jose State University and returned to Texas after facing allegations of backlash and harassment after filing a lawsuit.
Trump signed the deadline from the Women’s Sports Executive Order on February 5th. One day, the NCAA revised its gender eligibility policy to limit participation in women’s categories to biological women only. However, the new policy criticizes the ample progress made by some women sports activists.
Alabama has been enforcing state law since 2021 to prevent trans-athletes in girls’ sports. In 2023, it was expanded to include university students. Unlike other laws that address this issue, Alabama law also prohibits athletes who assign athletes to participate in the girls category at birth unless they have comparable girls opportunities (such as football).
Trans-inclusion in women and girls’ sports emerged as a hot button issue with Trump’s 2024 election victory as most Americans robbed the topic of Republicans.
a National exit survey What the US Legislative Action Committee undertakes for the women involved found that 70% of moderate voters “donald Trump considers transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms important to them.
President Donald Trump will speak to a graduate of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1, 2025. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
Six percent said it was the most important question of all, and 44% said it was “very important.”
This issue was heavily influenced by the influence of young college-educated women, and influenced the national counterculture movement against Democratic policy to keep transathletes in women’s sports. According to an exit poll by NBC News, Biden’s 35-point lead among young women in the 2020 election cycle has been reduced to a 24-point margin of Trump’s 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, among young women in the 2020 election cycle.
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President Donald Trump will make his opening remarks at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
a New York Times/Ipsos Survey The vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, have discovered that they do not believe that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
Of the 2,128 participants, 79% identified as women, biological men, said they should not be allowed to participate in female sports. Of the 1,025 identified as Democrats or Democrats they rely on, 67% said trans athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Almost 70% of Americans say that biological men should not be allowed to compete in female sports. Gallup vote last year.
June 2024, survey NORC conducts at the University of Chicago We asked respondents whether transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender identity instead of biological sex. In that survey, 65% said it was never allowed or should rarely be allowed. When people who voted specifically were asked about adult transgender female athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% opposed it.
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