Trump signs order banning trans athletes from competing in women’s sports
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We start the day's other headlines with a busy day at the White House that includes visits by two of the nation's most high-profile governors and an executive action that takes steps to restrict transgender rights in sports. |
| 0:13.4 | Oh, I think we have a 10. We have a 10! |
| 0:18.0 | On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump pushing through another campaign promise through executive order. |
| 0:25.8 | The war on women's sports is over. |
| 0:28.7 | Banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. |
| 0:32.3 | In recent years, the radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex |
| 0:39.1 | and replace it with a militant transgender ideology. |
| 0:43.0 | Under the order, schools allowing transgender athletes to compete would be violating Title IX, |
| 0:49.2 | the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools and could be denied federal funding as a result. |
| 0:55.3 | But a setback today for another campaign promise as a second federal judge put a hold on Trump's |
| 1:01.6 | executive order to end birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Deborah Bordman issued a |
| 1:07.2 | nationwide injunction saying that the order, quote, runs counter to our nation's |
| 1:11.9 | 250-year history of citizenship by birth. |
| 1:15.9 | Meanwhile, in Washington, California Governor Gavin Newsom became the first Democrat to visit |
| 1:20.8 | the White House to meet with the president, trying to secure federal funding to help |
| 1:24.9 | Los Angeles communities ravaged by deadly wildfires. |
| 1:28.5 | The president has repeatedly threatened to withhold that aid if the state doesn't take certain |
| 1:33.4 | unrelated steps, like enacting voter identification measures for elections. |
| 1:40.0 | And Trump's own cabinet continues to come together. |
| 1:43.1 | Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General and Trump impeachment defense lawyer sworn in today |
| 1:49.1 | to the nation's top law enforcement job. |
| 1:52.8 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues his five-nation visit across Central America as Guatemala's |
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