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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Days after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two landmark cases involving state laws protecting girls’ and women’s sports, President Donald Trump declared, “We got men out of women’s sports.”
At an inauguration ceremony at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, the president discussed his administration’s efforts to ensure the protection of women’s sports amid an ongoing national debate surrounding the participation of transgender athletes.
President Donald Trump speaks during a road dedication ceremony at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 2026. Florida lawmakers approved the renaming of a portion of Southern Boulevard to President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“… Transgender insanity is out of our schools and out of our lives,” Trump said. “And we got men out of women’s sports – officially out of women’s sports.”
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“And everybody said, well, it’s an 80/20 problem. No, it’s a 98/2 problem. I don’t even think it’s 98/2.”
Trump began his second term with a focus on protecting girls and women’s sports. In February, he signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, which prompted the NCAA to update its policy the following day to limit women’s competition to biological females.
Soon, other sports governing bodies would follow suit, but a handful of Democrat-controlled states, notably Maine, California and Minnesota, refused to comply. Legal battles followed, including the two heard before the Supreme Court on Tuesday — Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ
The Supreme Court will examine whether the laws in those states, Idaho and West Virginia, violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and the landmark federal law, Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in education.
President Donald Trump arrives at a dedication ceremony for a portion of Southern Boulevard, which the Town of Palm Beach Council recently voted to rename President Donald J. Trump Boulevard, at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted the administration’s efforts at a briefing Thursday and criticized some of the Supreme Court justices for appearing to challenge biological differences between men and women during Tuesday’s hearing.
“The administration… [has] taken action on a number of fronts against these states that fail to uphold the president’s executive orders and this administration’s policy of simply protecting women and women’s sports and women’s private spaces. We have also gone to the mat with major universities in this country to try to fight for what is right and what is just for women in this country.
A protester holds a sign outside the Supreme Court during arguments over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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“I think the president is talking common sense on this issue, that women’s sports and private spaces need to be protected, and that there are two sexes, there are two sexes — that’s not something we should be afraid to say in this country.”
The Supreme Court’s verdict is expected to come later this summer.
