President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele percentage commonplace flooring on banning organic males from ladies’s sports activities – underscoring the rising alignment between their administrations as they coordinate efforts to curb unlawful immigration to the U.S.
“Do you permit males to play in ladies’s sports activities? Do you permit males to field your ladies?” Trump requested Bukele from the Oval Place of work on Monday. Trump’s feedback got here after discussing immigration and imposing “commonplace sense” insurance policies.
“That’s violence,” Bukele mentioned in reaction.
“That is abusive…however we’ve got people who combat to the demise as a result of they believe males must have the ability to play in ladies’s sports activities,” Trump mentioned.
Pam Bondi, U.S. Legal professional Common, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (second R) take a seat within reach as President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador within the Oval Place of work of the White Area, April 14, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
Bukele then mentioned that in spite of efforts to advance ladies’s proper to stop abuse towards ladies up to now, there are new efforts that may “go into reverse” on those projects and perpetuate violence towards ladies as an alternative.
“I believe the ones rules have been nice as a result of there have been a large number of males abusing ladies, however now one of the vital identical persons are seeking to go into reverse and if truth be told seeking to make new rules permitting males to abuse ladies, as in sports activities,” Bukele mentioned. “So if truth be told, that does not make sense.”
Trump signed an government order in February barring the ones assigned male at beginning from competing in ladies’s sports activities, titled, “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities.” The order bans the ones assigned male at beginning from the use of ladies’s restrooms and orders the Division of Training to spearhead investigations into circumstances of conceivable violations.
President Donald Trump greets El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele as he arrives on the West Wing of the White Area, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
In reaction, the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation (NCAA) introduced that it will observe the steering and allow most effective the ones assigned feminine at beginning to take part in ladies’s sports activities.
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“The NCAA is a company made up of one,100 faculties and universities in all 50 states that jointly sign up greater than 530,000 student-athletes. We strongly consider that transparent, constant, and uniform eligibility requirements would highest serve nowadays’s student-athletes as an alternative of a patchwork of conflicting state rules and courtroom choices. To that finish, President Trump’s order supplies a transparent, nationwide same old,” NCAA President Charlie Baker mentioned in a remark in February.
