Virginia High School League (VHSL) announced on Monday that its Executive Committee was voting to bring his league in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order “to keep men out of women’s sports.”
Trump signed the executive order on the last Wednesday and met one of his most important campaign information about keeping biological men out of girls and women’s sports.
The order was signed on the Nationals Girls and Women in Sports Day, celebrating female athletes in women’s sports and those obliged to provide equal access to sports for all women.
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President Donald Trump signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5, 2025. (AP/IMAGN)
VHSL, which manages high school sports in the state, will immediately comply with the executive order that is effective.
“VHSL is an association consisting of 318 member schools with more than 177,000 students participating annually in sports and academic activities. VHSL is the governing body and our member schools look and trust VHSL for politics and guidance. For that purpose. VHSL will comply with the executive order, “VHSL Director John W. Haun said in a statement.
“The compliance will give membership clear and consistent direction.”
Trump signs’ no men in women’s sporting order
The statement also noted that the VHSL -Eexecutive Committee ordered the staff to immediately propose political changes in the form of emergency law to comply with the executive order. Language is soon adjusted in its political manual.
“This doesn’t have to be long. It’s about common sense,” Trump said, before signing the order last week, adding that “Women’s Sports will only be for women.”
“The war against women’s sports is over,” he said.
Since Trump signed the order, NCAA has also officially banned trans athletes to participate in women’s sports. Their message came one day after signing, a quick response to the collegiate governing body.
“A student athlete who is awarded a man at birth may not compete for a women’s team,” the new policy reads. Policy allows biological women to compete in men’s sports.
“NCAA is an organization that consists of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that gather more than 530,000 student athletes,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement. “We are convinced that clear, consistent and uniform standards of eligibility will best serve today’s student athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To this end, President Trump’s order provides a clear national standard.”
Save Women’s Sports Advisor Beth Stelzer has a press conference outside the NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship at Georgia Tech in Atlanta on March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis-usa Today Sports)
Independent female ambassadors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens were present when Trump signed the executive order in the Eastern Room in the White House.
Gaines, hosting Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast, was among those who fought for justice in women’s sports after being pronounced about her experience of swimming against Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who won the women’s ncaa – Championships in 2022.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing before Trump signed the executive order that it “maintains the promise of title IX.”
“President Trump promised to restore common sense to our country, and he continues to deliver it with a executive order he will sign later today,” she added. “The president will sign an executive order, keep men out of women’s sports to defend the security of the athletes, protect competitive integrity and maintain the promise of title IX.”
Leavitt also called on the Senate to adopt the protection of women and girls sports that the house sent through last month. The bill would prohibit biological men from participating in girls’ school sports teams and at the same time changing the federal law to specify students athletes to participate in school sports that coincide with their birth gender.
President Donald Trump signs “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order in the law of the eastern space of the White House on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
Virginia voted blue in the presidential election in 2024, when 52.1% of the vote went to former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump received 46.3% of the votes.
