The Virginia Excessive Faculty League (VHSL) introduced on Monday that its government committee voted to carry its league in compliance with President Donald Trump’s government order “Preserving Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities.”
Trump signed the chief order this previous Wednesday, fulfilling certainly one of his important marketing campaign guarantees of retaining organic males out of women and girls’s sports activities.
The order was signed on Nationals Ladies and Girls in Sports activities Day, which celebrates females athletes in ladies’s sports activities and people dedicated to offering equal entry to sports activities for all females.
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President Donald Trump signed the “Preserving Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities” government order on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP/IMAGN)
The VHSL, which governs highschool sports activities within the state, will adjust to the chief order efficient instantly.
“The VHSL is an affiliation comprising 318 member colleges with greater than 177,000 college students taking part yearly in sports activities and educational actions. The VHSL is the governing physique, and our member colleges look to and depend on the VHSL for coverage and steerage. To that finish, the VHSL will adjust to the Govt Order,” VHSL Govt Director John W. Haun stated in a press release.
“The compliance will present membership clear and constant route.”
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The assertion additionally famous that the VHSL government committee directed employees to right away suggest coverage modifications within the type of emergency laws to adjust to the chief order. Language will probably be adjusted in its coverage guide quickly.
“This does not must be lengthy. It is all about widespread sense,” Trump stated earlier than signing the order final week, including that “Girls’s sports activities will probably be just for ladies.”
“The conflict on ladies’s sports activities is over,” he stated.
Since Trump signed the order, the NCAA has additionally formally banned trans athletes from taking part in ladies’s sports activities. Their announcement got here sooner or later after the signing, a fast response for the collegiate governing physique.
“A student-athlete assigned male at beginning could not compete on a ladies’s group,” the brand new coverage reads. The coverage does enable organic females to compete in males’s sports activities.
“The NCAA is a company made up of 1,100 schools and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll greater than 530,000 student-athletes,” NCAA President Charlie Baker stated in a press release. “We strongly imagine that clear, constant and uniform eligibility requirements would greatest serve at present’s student-athletes as a substitute of a patchwork of conflicting state legal guidelines and courtroom selections. To that finish, President Trump’s order supplies a transparent, nationwide commonplace.”
Save Girls’s Sports activities advisor Beth Stelzer holds a press convention outdoors the NCAA Girls’s Swimming & Diving Championship at Georgia Tech in Atlanta on March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Impartial Girls ambassadors Riley Gaines, Payton McNabb, Paula Scanlan, Sia Liilii, Lauren Miller, Kim Russell, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Linnea Saltz and Lily Mullens have been current when Trump signed the chief order within the East Room of the White Home.
Gaines, who hosts OutKick’s “Gaines for Ladies” podcast, was amongst these preventing for equity in ladies’s sports activities after being outspoken about her expertise swimming in opposition to Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who gained the ladies’s NCAA Championships in 2022.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in a briefing earlier than Trump signed the chief order that it “upholds the promise of Title IX.”
“President Trump pledged to revive widespread sense to our nation, and he’s persevering with to ship on that with an government order that he’ll signal later at present,” she added. “The president will probably be signing an government order, retaining males out of ladies’s sports activities to defend the security of athletes, shield aggressive integrity and uphold the promise of Title IX.”
Leavitt additionally referred to as upon the Senate to cross the Safety of Girls and Ladies Sports activities Act, which the Home despatched by way of final month. The invoice would ban organic males from taking part on women’ college sports activities groups whereas additionally amending federal regulation to specify that pupil athletes should take part at school sports activities that coincide with their beginning gender.
President Donald Trump indicators the “No Males in Girls’s Sports activities” government order into regulation within the East Room of the White Home on Feb. 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)
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Virginia voted blue within the 2024 presidential election, with 52.1% of votes going to former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump obtained 46.3% of the vote.
Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos and Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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