February 10, 2025
The International Consortium on Female Sport (ICFS) celebrates two of President Donald Trump’s executive orders:
1. “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (January 20); and
2. “Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports” (February 5)
We (ICFS) are greatly appreciative of this turn towards sanity in the acknowledgement and explicit protection of women’s sex-based rights in sports. As one of our founding members has written:
“Trump makes it seem so simple. That’s because it is. We have always known that everyone is either male or female and that in sport the two sexes need to be separated for fairness and safety, and to give women a shot at winning and earning a living in sport as men do.” (Fiona McAnena – Sex Matters, UK)
Of equal importance is the portion of the executive order that states:
This clause in President Trump’s executive order is timely, given the recent poor response (December 17, 2024) by the IOC to our (ICFS) appeal for fairness and inclusion of women both in competition and in consultation regarding eligibility.
Not only did IOC spokesperson Christian Klaue double down on the highly flawed “2021 IOC Framework” promoting the human rights of trans-identified males above the interest of women in sports, but he also explicitly undermined the UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, for her stance on protecting female athletes.
No international organization has a mandate to undermine established rights, such as the right of women to non-discrimination based on their sex.
These new executive orders issued by President Donald Trump reinforce the principle that sex-discrimination against women and girls in sports will no longer be tolerated.
The ICFS implores the IOC and all other international sports organizations to engage in good faith consultation with stakeholders in establishing clear, sex-based categorical criteria for women’s competition. Eligibility guidelines should never rob women and girls of safe and fair sporting opportunities, “…which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
The elimination of sex-discrimination against women and girls in sports can only become a reality when every sport governing entity around the world opposes male competitive participation in female sports. As President Trump says: it is “a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
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Press Release: ICFS Praises Trump Executive Orders and Condemns Olympics Letter
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