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CV NEWS FEED // On Feb. 12, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls commended President Donald Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sport.”
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International reports that UN rapporteur Reem Alsalem stated, “This decision reaffirms the importance of maintaining sex-based categories in sports, thereby safeguarding equal opportunities for women and girls.”
Alsalem added that the order ensures women’s dignity and privacy by preserving female-only athletic opportunities and locker rooms.
During President Joe Biden’s term, Alsalem warned the administration that allowing men to compete in women’s sports violates the United States’ international human rights obligations, ADF reports.
In a letter to the United States government, she wrote that changing Title IX regulations on the basis of “gender identity” rather than sex “would result in the unfair treatment and unlawful and extreme forms of discrimination against most women and girls on the basis of female sex” and “undermine the access of women and girls in sports to equal opportunity as well as undermine their overall participation in society and public life.”
Giorgio Mazzoli, director of UN advocacy for ADF International, also welcomed the recent executive order.
“The US government’s clear stand for women and girls in sport carries tremendous global significance,” Mazzoli stated. “The executive order commits to advocating for international rules and norms that protect a sex-based female sports category — a pivotal step for fairness and safety in female sports across the globe.”
