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Trump signs order banning trans athletes from competing in women’s sports

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

President Trump took his first meeting at the White House with a Democratic foe, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, with federal aid for wildfire-stricken communities hanging in the balance. And with more executive actions, Trump took steps to restrict transgender rights in sports. Amna Nawaz reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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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

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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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