It appears that the order directs the Department of Education from providing funds to schools that do not comply.BMX Bandit said:https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-transgender-athletes-3606411fc12efffec95a893351624e1bQuote:
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events.
I will be very interested to see how far he goes with this. (the further the better). I will update once the EO is published
Either way, legislation from Congress has to happen also. its already passed the house, need the senate on board.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-bill-ban-transgender-student-athletes-womens-sports-rcna187703
Does this mean that the Department of Education now has a legitimate purpose?
We need to do this through legislation passed by both houses and signed into law. That would make it harder to do away with. With an executive order, the next Democratic President can simply write his own executive order to replace this one. And it is quite open for a federal judge to strike it down.
This brings up a question. Are executive orders easier for judges to strike down an executive order than for them to strike down a law that passed both houses of Congress and which was signed into law by the President? I have no idea, but it seems possible that an Executive Order may be easier to strike.
