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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Not sure why it (women's sports eligibility requirements) takes an executive order to do this kind of thing. Surely it wouldn't have any difficulties in passing Congress?
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Apart from Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ PR strategy, the key to the hurry on this particular issue it seems to be the largely unnoticed provisions in clause 4, which bans the immigration service from giving entry visas to foreign male competitors intending to compete in female categories in any sport on US soil, up to and including the LA Olympics in 2028. They seem to intend to force the IOC to man up (pardon the pun) and reinstate sex testing rather than fudging it and passing the buck to sports governing bodies, and to do so before everyone gets too far down the road towards qualification and team selection for the next Games. Getting that out there now ensures any legal blowback will have been settled beforehand. On this issue, the administration genuinely seems to believe it is doing something for women’s rights across the whole western world where this genderist nonsense has taken hold, rather than just within the USA. Though it’s important to note that this rule would also exclude males with disorders of sexual development, such as 46,XY DSD from slipping into female categories. There is more than enough evidence now in the public domain to say that the Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif, is a biological male with 46, XY DSD. While that doesn’t make him transgender in any sense, it was nevertheless unfair for him to be allowed to box women, and under a simple sex testing regime managed by the IOC that would never have happened.
With regards to primary legislation, from what I understand it, an EO is just quicker, and while it’s reversible by a future president, the Trump admin seems to believe that it’s such a widely-supported issue it’s unlikely to be rolled back. I mean, you saw the photo (and presumably the TV footage that went with it). Presented as it was, who’s going to make an active argument against protecting women and girls from male advantage in sports? Any future Dem administration that proposes rolling this back will have that thrown right at them, and rightly so. It’s a scandal that boys and men, regardless of how they feel about themselves or their identity, have been indulged in this way and allowed to use their biological advantages against women and girls.
All that said, I have also seen some GOP politicians suggesting they might like to follow this up with legislation at some point.