Former first lady Melania Trump has been a champion of the LGBT community, but where she draws the line is with biological males competing in women's sports.
The 54-year-old model and mother spoke out against the inclusion of transgender people in women's sports in an excerpt from her new memoir “Melania,” which was released Tuesday. He called the premise of biological males competing in women's sports “unfair”, due to the natural physical advantages that men have over women in terms of strength and speed.
“Male bodies generally have physical advantages (muscle strength, height, bone density, and lung capacity) that can affect fairness in competition, even at the high school level,” he wrote. “High school athletes often spend years training in the hopes of being recruited by colleges. Watching that dream collapse is an unnecessary and avoidable consequence.”
The former first lady also spoke out against groups advocating for the inclusion of transgender people in women's sports and condemned their ideologies.
“Today, some groups attempt to impose their ideologies on everyone, deepening the divisions in our society. One example is the ongoing debate over trans inclusion in sports, specifically when athletes born male who identify as women compete against women,” he wrote. “Some argue that the number of transathletes is low, but even one can upset the balance in a women's league or tournament due to these physical advantages.”
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Former President Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump at their Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
More than anything, Trump wants the best for female athletes. This includes your protection and privacy from the men in the locker rooms, as well as your financial well-being, as your income could be affected by competing against biological men.
“I fully support the LGBTQIA+ community. But we must also ensure that our athletes are protected and respected,” she wrote. “This issue also has broader implications, including loss of future earning potential as professional athletes and a potential setback for equal pay in sports.”
Her husband, former President Trump, has been a vocal opponent of transgender inclusion in women's sports for years, and has even included it on his political agenda in the upcoming election.
Trump reaffirmed his stance in late August at the annual meeting of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has led efforts to keep LGBT identity and critical race theory out of the classroom. The former president preached at the event that transgender women should not be allowed to play women's sports and said access to gender-affirming health care should be restricted.
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Former President Trump speaks at a town hall event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Friday, October 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Karl B. DeBlaker)
The Trump campaign launched a series of ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, during Sunday's NFL football game, focusing on their stance on inclusiveness. transgender. All ads contained the tagline “Kamala is for them. President Trump is for you.”
In April, the Biden administration issued a sweeping rule that said Title IX's ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions.”
the rule came into force on August 1 and, for the first time, the law established that discrimination based on sex includes conduct related to a person's well-being. gender identity. The Biden administration insisted that the regulation does not address sports eligibility. However, several experts evidence presented told Fox News Digital in June that Biden's claims that he would not allow biological men to participate in women's sports were not true and that the proposal would ultimately include more biological men in women's sports.
He Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reject an emergency request from Biden to enforce parts of that new rule that includes nondiscrimination protections for transgender students under Title IX, after more than two dozen Republican attorneys general sued to block Title IX changes in their own states.
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after tying for fifth place in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022 in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Trump invited former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines to his rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23. Gaines testified in Georgia about her experience competing and sharing a locker room with a biological male, Lia Thomas, along with four other NCAA players. All-American women's athletes at 2022 NCAA championships. The women filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in March alleging that the association knowingly violated Title IX by allowing Thomas to compete.
Gaines criticized Democrats for their positions on multiple gender identity issues at the event, including the inclusion of transgender people in women's sports.
“They don't believe in school choice; they don't believe in parental rights or child protection; they don't believe in freedom unless it's the freedom to abort or chemically and surgically castrate children,” he said. “There is one argument that knows what a woman is and has promised to take decisive action to protect our sex-based rights, compared to the other argument that thinks men can get pregnant and that tampons should be in children's bathrooms.
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