Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

The order directs the Secretary of Education, acting promptly and in coordination with the Attorney General, to ensure a 2024 Title IX rule that had been vacated by federal courts has no continuing effect, to actively protect female-only athletic teams and locker rooms, and to prioritize enforcement actions against educational institutions that require female students to compete against or appear unclothed before male athletes. It establishes federal policy that women's sports categories must be reserved for biological females and that funding shall be rescinded from programs that fail to comply. All executive agencies are directed to review their grants to educational programs and withdraw funding from noncompliant programs. The Department of Justice is directed to provide resources for expeditious enforcement.

Separate directives govern international and diplomatic dimensions. The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy must, within 60 days, convene major athletic organizations and state attorneys general to develop best practices. The Secretary of State is directed to rescind support for sports exchange programs using gender identity rather than sex for female-category eligibility, promote international norms at the United Nations, and press the International Olympic Committee to revise its standards. The Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security are directed to review visa policies with the goal of preventing males from entering the United States to compete in women's sports.

Female athletes at federally funded schools and colleges, transgender athletes currently competing in women's categories, educational institutions and athletic associations receiving federal funds, international sports governing bodies including the IOC, and non-citizen athletes seeking U.S. visas to compete in women's sporting events.

Schools and colleges that allow transgender women to compete in female athletic categories risk losing federal funding. Transgender athletes currently participating in women's sports at federally funded institutions face potential exclusion. International athletes who are male-born and compete as women may face visa restrictions when seeking entry to the United States for competition.

The order works in two tracks. Domestically, the Department of Education leads enforcement under Title IX — reviewing institutional compliance, issuing guidance, and initiating enforcement actions — while all agencies audit their own grants and withdraw funds from noncompliant programs; the Department of Justice backs both with legal resources. Internationally, the State Department uses diplomatic channels, sports exchange programs, and UN representation to promote sex-based eligibility norms. The 60-day convening deadline is the only fixed trigger; all other directives carry no set deadline but must be completed "promptly" or on an ongoing basis. A severability clause preserves the order if any provision is struck down.