Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

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February 11, 2025

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February 5, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 11, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 9279-9281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02513]

Presidential Documents

Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 11, 2025 /
Presidential Documents

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Executive Order 14201 of February 5, 2025

Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and to protect opportunities for women and
girls to compete in safe and fair sports, it is hereby
ordered:

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. In recent years, many
educational institutions and athletic associations have
allowed men to compete in women's sports. This is
demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls,
and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to
participate and excel in competitive sports.

Moreover, under Title IX of the Education Amendments
Act of 1972 (Title IX), educational institutions
receiving Federal funds cannot deny women an equal
opportunity to participate in sports. As some Federal
courts have recognized, ``ignoring fundamental
biological truths between the two sexes deprives women
and girls of meaningful access to educational
facilities.'' Tennessee v. Cardona, 24-cv-00072 at 73
(E.D. Ky. 2024). See also Kansas v. U.S. Dept. of
Education, 24-cv-04041 at 23 (D. Kan. 2024)
(highlighting ``Congress' goals of protecting
biological women in education'').

Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to
rescind all funds from educational programs that
deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities,
which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and
silencing of women and girls and deprives them of
privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United
States to oppose male competitive participation in
women's sports more broadly, as a matter of safety,
fairness, dignity, and truth.

Sec. 2. Definitions. The definitions in Executive Order
14168 of January 20, 2025 (Defending Women from Gender
Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to
the Federal Government), shall apply to this order.

Sec. 3. Preserving Women's Sports in Education. (a) In
furtherance of the purposes of Title IX, the Secretary
of Education shall promptly:

(i) in coordination with the Attorney General, continue to comply with the
vacatur of the rule entitled ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in
Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance''
of April 29, 2024, 89 FR 33474, see Tennessee v. Cardona, 24-cv-00072 at
13-15 (E.D. Ky. 2025), and take other appropriate action to ensure this
regulation does not have effect;

(ii) take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female
athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the
equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of
1972, including enforcement actions described in subsection (iii); to bring
regulations and policy guidance into line with the Congress' existing
demand for ``equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes'' by
clearly specifying and clarifying that women's sports are reserved for
women; and the resolution of pending litigation consistent with this
policy; and

(iii) prioritize Title IX enforcement actions against educational
institutions (including athletic associations composed of or governed by
such institutions) that deny female students an equal opportunity to
participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them, in the women's
category, to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.

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(b) All executive departments and agencies
(agencies) shall review grants to educational programs
and, where appropriate, rescind funding to programs
that fail to comply with the policy established in this
order.
(c) The Department of Justice shall provide all
necessary resources, in accordance with law, to
relevant agencies to ensure expeditious enforcement of
the policy established in this order.

Sec. 4. Preserving Fairness and Safety in Women's
Sports. Many sport-specific governing bodies have no
official position or requirements regarding trans-
identifying athletes. Others allow men to compete in
women's categories if these men reduce the testosterone
in their bodies below certain levels or provide
documentation of ``sincerely held'' gender identity.
These policies are unfair to female athletes and do not
protect female safety. To address these concerns, it is
hereby ordered:

(a) The Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy shall, within 60 days of the date of this order:

(i) convene representatives of major athletic organizations and governing
bodies, and female athletes harmed by such policies, to promote policies
that are fair and safe, in the best interests of female athletes, and
consistent with the requirements of Title IX, as applicable; and

(ii) convene State Attorneys General to identify best practices in defining
and enforcing equal opportunities for women to participate in sports and
educate them about stories of women and girls who have been harmed by male
participation in women's sports.

(b) The Secretary of State, including through the
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Sports
Diplomacy Division and the Representative of the United
States of America to the United Nations, shall:

(i) rescind support for and participation in people-to-people sports
exchanges or other sports programs within which the relevant female sports
category is based on identity and not sex; and

(ii) promote, including at the United Nations, international rules and
norms governing sports competition to protect a sex-based female sports
category, and, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, convene
international athletic organizations and governing bodies, and female
athletes harmed by policies that allow male participation in women's
sports, to promote sporting policies that are fair, safe, and in
furtherance of the best interests of female athletes.

(c) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall review and adjust, as needed,
policies permitting admission to the United States of
males seeking to participate in women's sports, and
shall issue guidance with an objective of preventing
such entry to the extent permitted by law, including
pursuant to section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(C)(i)).
(d) The Secretary of State shall use all
appropriate and available measures to see that the
International Olympic Committee amends the standards
governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness,
safety, and the best interests of female athletes by
ensuring that eligibility for participation in women's
sporting events is determined according to sex and not
gender identity or testosterone reduction.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party

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against the United States, its departments, agencies,
or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the
application of any provision to any person or
circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of
this order and the application of its provisions to any
other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.
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February 5, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02513
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