As President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports nine Carroll County athletes were among those

Of the more than 500,000 NCAA student athletes, fewer than 10 of them are trans, according to NCAA President Charlie Baker.

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refused to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” he said in the East Room of the White House before signing the order.

The new policy, which is effective immediately, limits competition in women’s sports exclusively to athletes assigned female at birth.

Candidates to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Association have outlined their views on transgender athletes competing against women and in the Olympic Games, an issue that was the subject of an executive order issued by U.

With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” the President said at a signing ceremony for the latest in a string of executive actions aimed at trans people.

Lacie DeCosta, the wife of Baltimore Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta, went to bat for President Donald Trump's executive order protecting women's sports.