WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated a massive Supreme Court ruling on men in women’s sports on Tuesday, heralding the landmark decision as a “BIG WIN.”
The president reacted to news Tuesday morning that the Supreme Court had ruled that states have the power to ban men from women’s sports.
“BIG WIN,” he posted on Truth Social. “The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.”
“Wow,” he added. “That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!”
That post is reminiscent of the president’s messaging throughout his 2024 campaign cycle, during which he repeatedly reminded the public that gender ideology and the movements advocates were “crazy” and out of touch with American sentiment.
Trump has long promised to remove men from women’s sports, pouring millions into television ads during the campaign cycle that highlighted Kamala Harris’s promotion of far-left policies, including taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners.
The Daily Wire reported shortly before the election that transgenderism had become “the 2024 sleeper issue,” and the president had harnessed that momentum.
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Activists and operatives close to Trump world said that the events of the four years leading up to the election, including the grassroots uprising of parents against ideology in schools, the Loudoun County, Virginia, sexual assault of a young girl by a trans-identifying student, and the emergence of fighters like former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines — all these incidents convinced Trump that he needed to be at the forefront of the transgender culture war.
Trump messaged throughout his campaign that Harris and the Democrats were pushing dangerous ideology that Americans didn’t want, arguing repeatedly that the far-Left policies of the Democratic Party were “crazy.” Those assertions were based on polling, both internal and external, showing that Americans don’t want these radical transgender policies.
That messaging paid off when Americans voted against Harris — and for Trump — in the 2024 election.
Shortly after he took office, Trump signed an executive order banning men from women’s sports, surrounded by advocates who fought against gender ideology and for the preservation of women’s spaces, including activist Riley Gaines.
“We are fighting for the bare minimum here,” Gaines said ahead of the Supreme Court ruling. “Can we allow ourselves to be vulnerable in an intimate area of undressing such as a locker room without having to fear a man walking into that space? Can we do those things?”
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion in Tuesday’s ruling, stating that Title IX allows schools to determine eligibility for female sports teams based on biological sex. He was joined by the other conservative justices, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed with a few parts of the majority opinion but dissented on others.
The decision specifically dealt with laws passed in Idaho and West Virginia banning males from female sports. More than half the states in the country have passed similar laws protecting the integrity of girls’ sports and spaces. The Supreme Court upheld those laws Tuesday, though it left the question of whether Title IX requires states to ban trans-identifying athletes from competing against girls.
“They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex,” Kavanaugh wrote. “The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America.”
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