American Catholic bishops praised President Trump's executive order banning biological men from participating in women's sports.
“We welcome the President's executive order to protect the opportunity for women and girls to compete in sports safely and fairly.” I said Bishops Robert Baron and David M. O'Connell head the Bishop's Committee on Bishops' Congregations, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and the Catholic School Board, respectively.
“In line with the Catholic Church's clear teaching on equality between men and women, we reaffirm that, as elsewhere, policy must protect human dignity in education and sports. ” said the bishop.
“This includes equal treatment between women and men and affirming the goodness of a person who is genetically and biologically female or male,” they added.
In his February 5th executive order, “Stop men from women's sports,” President Trump said the practice of allowing men to compete in women's sports is “demeaning, unfair and dangerous for women and girls, and women.” and said that the girl is to deny equality. Opportunities to participate in competitive sports and excel.”
Trump further said all funding would be “removed from education programs that deprive women and girls of fair movement opportunities, bringing the extinction, humiliation, silence and privacy of women and girls.”
In their statement, the bishops pointed out that, according to Catholic teaching, men and women were created “as their own beings as humans and women” and “complete equality as humans.”
“Being a man or a woman is a willing reality that is good by God,” they added.
Students experiencing gender discomfort “being owes a full measure of human dignity, they must be treated with kindness and respect,” the bishop said. “Like their peers, those students must ensure that they have the right to participate in or try coeducational activities according to their biological sex.”
The executive order was widely praised on social media, even by public figures who were not known for their support.
JK Rowling, author of the bestselling Harry Potter series, offered a congratulations “to everyone on the left who is campaigning to destroy the rights of women and girls.”
“If it wasn't for you, there's no image like this,” she added in X's post, sharing a photo of President Trump and signing his executive order surrounded by smiling female athletes defending his instructions. I did.
Similarly, tennis icon Martina Navratilova, open lesbian married to a woman; Share Video about X of female and girl athletes walking to the White House to witness the signing of the president's executive order.
“I hate that Democrats have completely failed women and girls with this very clear question of women's sport only for women,” Navratilova said.
