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President Donald Trump has stirred up the hearts of University of Alabama graduates and reaffirmed his promise to “keep men out of women's sports.”
In her opening speech at the college graduation ceremony on Thursday night, Trump shut out the school's SEC champion women's track and field team, then sparked a raucous applause by “vowing to protect women's sports.”
“As long as I am the president, we will always protect women's sports. Men don't play women's sports!” Trump said for the loudest applause of the night before the crowd erupted in cheers.
“No way! They say it's an 80-20 issue. No, I think it's a 97-3 issue,” Trump said. “No, men don't play in women's sports. I said that, so as you know, I categorized it with a very strong executive order.
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Later in the speech, Trump returned to the subject later in the speech, laughing at Democrats for allowing women's sports trans athletes and trans athletes themselves with long rants.
In this section of the speech, Trump also discussed women's boxing competitions at the Parisio Philosophy. This included two gold medalists who were previously disqualified from international competition due to failure in gender eligibility tests. However, neither boxer, Algerian Iman Kelif or Taiwan's Lin Yu Ointing has identified him as transgender.
“They had a great champion female boxer. After one punch, she went back to the corner and said, “I can't take that kind of blow.
At one point, Trump did physical impersonation of a female weight lifter and a trans weight lifter, recreating a scenario in which a woman loses competition from her trans opponent.
Trump then targeted a transgender swimmer and told him that the story of a joked swimmer had been “windburn” by his trans opponent.
“One young woman, she was going to set a record, she fought her life to record her life,” Trump said. “Then she turns to the right and she sees the same, but next to her there is a giant person… it was a transitional person, and he had a 'stilt' Chamberlain Willdopan. ”
Trump made similar references to the weightlifting and swimmer scenarios while speaking at the North Carolina Republican Conference in Greensboro in June 2023.
On Thursday, Trump also referred to female volleyball players affected by trans-inclusion.
“You see all the volleyball players who are so badly hurt that they've hit at a level they've never seen before,” Trump said.
Former University of Alabama women's volleyball player Brooke Slisser has entered a situation where she had to share her locker and bedroom with trans athletes when she transferred from university to San Jose State in 2023.
So, after departing Alabama for California, Slisser plunged into a situation where Fleming was made to share those spaces with his trans teammate Blair Fleming without being told he was a biological male.
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Alumni students are listening to President Donald Trump making a speech at the University of Alabama Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 1, 2025. Trump's remarks come the day before the official opening ceremony. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
Slusser then fled San Jose State University and returned to Texas after facing suspicions of backlash and harassment after filing a lawsuit.
Trump signed an executive order on February 5th to “hold men out of women's sports.” One day, the NCAA revised gender eligibility police, restricting women's participation in the category to biological women only. However, the new policy criticizes the ample progress made by some women sports activists.
Alabama as a state has introduced legislation to prevent women's sports trans athletes from being effective since 2021, and expanded in 2023 to include college students. Unlike other laws that address this issue, Alabama law also prohibits athletes who assign athletes to participate in the female category at birth unless they have comparable girls opportunities (such as football).
Trans-inclusion in women and girls' sports emerged as a hot button issue with Trump's 2024 election victory as most Americans robbed the topic of Republicans.
a National exit survey The Women for Concerns (CWA) Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “opposition between Donald Trump boys and men playing women's sports and trans boys using girls and women's toilets.”
US President Donald Trump will speak to alumni of the University of Alabama Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 1, 2025. Trump's remarks come the day before the official opening ceremony. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
And 6% said it was the most important question of all, and 44% said it was “very important.”
This issue has impacted the national countercultural movement towards promorat policies that keep transathletes in women's sports, which are heavily influenced by the influence of young college-educated women. And, according to the NBC News Exit Poll, a 35-point lead over Trump among young women over Trump in 2020 reduced to Harris' 24-point lead this year.
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US President Donald Trump will make his opening remarks at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 1, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
a New York Times/Ipsos Survey The vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, have discovered that they do not believe that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports.
Of the 2,128 participants, 79% identified as women, biological men, said they should not be allowed to participate in female sports. Of the 1,025 identified as Democrats or Democrats they rely on, 67% said trans athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Almost 70% of Americans say that biological men should not be allowed to compete in female sports. Gallup vote last year.
June 2024, survey NORC conducts at the University of Chicago We asked respondents whether transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender identity instead of biological sex. In that survey, 65% said it was never allowed or should rarely be allowed. When people who voted specifically were asked about adult transgender female athletes competing in women's sports, 69% opposed it.
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