Trump makes fun of trans athletes in women’s sports to roaring applause in Alabama’s start speech

President Donald Trump waved the hearts of the graduates of the University of Alabama when he reaffirmed his promise to “keep men out of women’s sports.”

During a graduation speech at the university graduation ceremony on Thursday night, Trump gave a whiten to the Women’s Athletics Athletics team of the SEC champion before lighting a strident applause “promising to defend women’s sports.”

“While he is president, we will always protect female sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Trump said before the crowd exploded in cheers for their stronger and longer applause of the night.

“In no way. They say it is a problem of 80-20. No, I think it is a problem of 97-3,” Trump said. “No, men will not play in women’s sports. I said it and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as they know. It is done.”

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Later in the speech, Trump returned to the subject, mocking the Democrats for allowing trans athletes in female sports and the trans athletes themselves in a long perorerate.

During this section of the speech, Trump also discussed the female boxing competitions of the Paris Olympic Games, which included two gold medalists who were previously disqualified from international competitions to fail in gender eligibility tests. However, Ni Boxer, Imane Khelif de Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting de Taiwan, identify as transgender.

“They had a great champion, a boxer, and after a blow, he returned to the corner and said: ‘I can’t be hit like this, they have never hit me like that before,” Trump said.

At one point, Trump made a physical impersonation of a female weightlifter and a trans weight lifter, and recreated a scenario in which the woman loses a competition before a trans opponent.

Then Trump pointed to the transgender swimmers, telling the story of a swimmer who joked was “burned” by a trans opponent.

“A young woman was going to establish the record, she fought all her life to establish the record,” Trump said. “Then look to the right, and see the same, but there is a person by his side that he is a giant … That was a person who made the transition, and he had the wings of Wilt ‘The Sock’ Chamberlain.”

Trump made references similar to the weightlifting scenarios of weights and swimmers in June 2023 while talking at the Convention of the North Carolina Republican Party in Greensboro.

On Thursday, Trump also referred to volleyball players who have been affected by trans inclusion.

“You look at all volleyball players that have been hurt so much, which are beaten at levels that had never seen before,” Trump said.

A former female volleyball player from the University of Alabama, Brooke Slusser, was pushed to a situation in which he had to share a costume and a bedroom with a trans athlete when he transferred from the university to the State University of San José in 2023. Slusser, alleges that he was made to share those spaces with his Trans teammate Blaire Fleming without being told Fleming was a biological man.

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Since then, Slusser has left the State University of San José and returned home in Texas after facing an alleged violent reaction and harassment after submitting its demand.

Trump signed men outside the Women’s Executive Order on February 5. A day later, the NCAA reviewed its gender eligibility policy to restrict participation in the category of women only to biological women. However, the new policy has also been criticized by some female sports activists for not going far enough.

Alabama has had a state law since 2021 to avoid trans athletes in girls’ sports. In 2023, it extended to include university students. Unlike other laws that address the problem, Alabama’s law also prohibits the athletes assigned as women at birth participate in the category of boys unless there is no comparable girls (such as football).

Trans inclusion in women and girls sports emerged as a Hot-Button problem in Trump’s electoral victory in 2024, since most Americans came to take the side of Republicans on the subject.

TO national output survey Made by the Legislative Women’s Action Committee for Women for America, it found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender children and men who interpret sports of girls and women and women and transgender men and men who use girls and women’s baths” as is important for them.

Six percent said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”

The problem inspired a national counterculture movement against Democratic policies that keep Trans athletes in women’s sports, strongly influenced by young women with university education. The advantage of 35 Biden points over Trump among young women in the 2020 presidential election cycle was reduced to a 24 -point margin for Trump’s opponent in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a NBC news output survey.

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TO New York Times/Ipsos Survey He discovered that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, do not believe that transgender athletes are allowed to compete in women’s sports.

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as Democrats or inclined Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be able to compete with women.

Almost 70% of Americans say that biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to a Gallup poll last year.

In June 2024, a survey Made by NORC at the University of Chicago When respondents were asked if the transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender identity instead of their biological sex. In that survey, 65% responded that never or would never be allowed. When respondents on adult transgender athletes who compete in women’s sports, 69% opposed him were asked specifically.

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