Former President Trump vowed Wednesday to “prevent” biological male athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports in response to a question from a female Georgia voter.
2024 Republican presidential candidate ranges from grandmother of nine to biological male participation through transgender policy to women's sports during FOX News Channel's exclusive town hall event with “Faulkner Focus” host Harris Faulkner asked how to protect it.
“It's a very simple question, and everyone in the room knows that we're not going to allow that to happen,” Trump told the assembled women.
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Former President Donald Trump answered questions from female voters during a town hall with Fox News' Harris Faulkner on “Faulkner Focus.” (“Fox & Friends” screenshot)
President Trump brought up reports of female athletes being injured while playing against biologically male transgender athletes and suggested those athletes had an unfair advantage.
“We're going to stop it. We're going to stop it absolutely. You can't have it. That's the guy playing the game.” [women’s] game,” he said of the physical differences between men and women.
After Faulkner asked President Trump how he would do it, the Republican candidate suggested he would take executive action.
“You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don't allow it,” Trump said, as the audience cheered. “It's no big deal.”
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Former President Trump said during a women's town hall on Fox News Channel that he would stop biological males from participating in women's sports. (Screenshot/Fox News)
At City Hall, President Trump also promised to abolish sanctuary cities in the wake of the killing of nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year.
“We can do things in terms of evicting people. We can move people out of sanctuary cities. We're going to abolish every sanctuary city in the United States and get back to normal.” he said. “And we'll have law and order” after the mother of a University of Georgia student presses the student about public safety concerns.
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Trump also fielded questions from female voters about the economy and abortion at a town hall event.
