Minnesota State High School League announced on Thursday that it will continue to allow transking athletes to compete against girls despite President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban them from doing so.
Trump on Wednesday signed “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order and fulfilled one of his great campaign promises to keep biological men out of girls and women’s sports.
The Minnesota organization said in an e -mail to member schools that participation by and eligibility of transking athletes is controlled by the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which includes the protection of LGBTQ+ people and the Minnesota Constitution.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient athletes from competing in women or girls sporting events in the eastern space of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Minnesota State High School League, similar to other youth sports organizations, is subject to state anti -discrimination laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity,” the organization said in a statement. “Therefore, students in Minnesota are allowed to participate in accordance with their gender identity.”
Minnesota joins California to ignore Trump’s executive order. The state is governed by Tim Walz, who was Kamala Harris’ race buddy for the 2024 election; The Democrats won the state.
The state was home to a Supreme Court case in which a transgender powerlifter continued the struggle to compete against biological women.
Trump signed the executive order of national girls and women on Sports Day celebrating female athletes in women’s sports and those obliged to provide equal access to sports for all women.
President Donald Trump signs “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order in the eastern space of the White House in Washington, DC, February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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Before Trump signed the order on Wednesday, the White House said press secretary Karoline Leavitt that part of the motivation behind Trump’s executive order would be to create a “preclim campaign” for the international Olympic committee (IOC) and NCAA to follow and prevent translowing athletes from compete in women’s sports.
In response to Trump’s order, NCAA changed its policy, which was in place since 2010, to reject transnry athletes from competing against women, which required them to compete based on the gender of their birth.
During Trump’s ceremony in the White House to sign the executive order he announced that security secretary for the home country Christ’s Noem Will ban transsexual athletes trying to compete as women from entering the country to the 2028 Olympics.
The Fn Published study results say that almost 900 biological females have come to win medals because they lost to transient athletes.
Save Women’s Sports Advisor Beth Stelzer has a press conference outside the NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship at Georgia Tech in Atlanta March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA Today Sports)
The study, “Violence against women and girls in sports“Said more than 600 athletes medal in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, a total of over 890 medals, according to information obtained up to 30 March.
