THE Lycée du Minnesota State league Announced Thursday that it will continue to allow transgender athletes to compete with the girls despite the executive order of President Donald Trump to prohibit them.
On Wednesday, Trump signed the executive decree “No Men in Women’s Sports” on Wednesday, making one of his major campaign promises to keep organic men away from female girls and sports.
The Minnesota organization has declared in an email to member schools that the participation and eligibility of transgender athletes are controlled by Minnesota Human Rights Act, which includes protections for LGBTQ + people and the MINNESOTA constitution.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive decree prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in female or girls sporting events in the East White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
“The Minnesota State High School League, similar to other sports organizations for young people, is subject to state anti-discrimination laws, which prohibit discrimination based on gender identity,” said the organization in a press release. “Consequently, Minnesota students are authorized to participate in accordance with their gender identity.”
Minnesota joins California Ignore Trump’s executive order. The state is governed by Tim Walz, who was Kamala Harris’s package for the 2024 elections; Democrats won the state.
The state housed a matter of the Supreme Court where a Powerlifter transgender continued the fight to compete with organic women.
Trump has signed the executive decree on national sports girls and women, which celebrates female athletes in female sports and those who have committed to providing equal access to sports to all women.
President Donald Trump signs the executive decree “No Men in Women’s Sports” in the East House of White House in Washington, DC, February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
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Before Trump to sign the order on Wednesday, the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said that part of the motivation behind Trump’s decree would be to create a “pressure campaign” for the International Olympic Committee (CIO) and NCAA to follow and prevent transgender athletes from participating in competition in female sports.
In response to Trump’s order, NCAA has changed its policy, in place since 2010, to ban transgender athletes from competing with women, which forced them to compete according to their birthday.
During the Trump ceremony in the White House to sign the decree, he announced that the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Prohibit all transgender athletes who are trying to compete as women to enter the country for the Olympic Games in 2028.
THE The United Nations The results of the published study saying that nearly 900 biological women have lacked victory medals because they lost against transgender athletes.
Save, the female sports advisor, Beth Stelzer, holds a press conference in front of the NCAA swimming and diving championship in Georgia Tech in Atlanta on March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis / USA TODAY SPORTS)
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The study, “Violence against women and girls in sport“Said that more than 600 athletes have not been a medalist in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, totaling more than 890 medals, according to information obtained until March 30.
Jackson Thompson de Fox News and Associated Press contributed to this report.
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