Trump Mocks Trans Athletes In Women's Sports To Roaring Applause At Alabama Commencement Speech

President Donald Trump stirred nan hearts of nan University of Alabama graduates erstwhile he re-affirmed his committedness to "keep men retired of women's sports."

During a commencement reside astatine nan university's graduation ceremonial connected Thursday night, Trump gave a shutout to nan school's SEC champion women's way and section team, earlier igniting a raucous applause by "vowing to defend women's sports."

"As agelong arsenic I'm president, we will ever protect women's sports, men will not play successful women's sports!" Trump said, earlier nan crowd erupted successful cheers, for its loudest and longest applause of nan night. 

"No way! They opportunity its an 80-20 issue, no, it's a 97-3 issue, I think," Trump said. "No, men will not beryllium playing successful women's sports. I said that and I classified it pinch a very powerful executive bid arsenic you know, it's done." 

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Later successful nan reside Trump circled backmost to nan taxable later successful nan speech, mocking nan Democrats for allowing trans athletes successful women's sports and nan trans athletes themselves successful a lengthy rant. 

During this conception of nan speech, Trump besides discussed nan Paris Olympics women's boxing competitions, which included 2 golden medalists who were antecedently disqualified from world competitions for failing gender eligibility tests. However, neither boxer, Algeria's Imane Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, identifies arsenic transgender. 

"They had a awesome champion a female boxer, and aft 1 punch she walked backmost to nan area and said ‘I can’t get deed for illustration that, I've ne'er been deed for illustration that before," Trump said. 

At 1 point, Trump did a beingness impersonation of a female weight lifter and a trans weight lifter, and reenacted a script wherever nan female loses a title to a trans opponent. 

Then Trump took purpose astatine transgender swimmers, telling a communicative of a swimmer who he joked was "windburned" by a trans opponent. 

"One young lady, she was going to group nan record, she fought each her life to group nan record," Trump said. "Then she looks to nan correct and she sees nan aforesaid point but there's a personification adjacent to her who's a giant… that was a personification that transitioned and he had nan wingspan of Wilt ‘the stilt’ Chamberlain." 

Trump made akin references to nan weightlifting and swimmer scenarios successful June 2023 while speaking astatine nan North Carolina Republican Party's normal successful Greensboro. 

On Thursday, Trump besides referenced female volleyball players who person been impacted by trans inclusion. 

"You look astatine each nan volleyball players who person been wounded truthful severely that are deed astatine levels that they've ne'er seen before," Trump said. 

One erstwhile University of Alabama women's volleyball player, Brooke Slusser, was thrust into a business wherever she had to stock a locker room and chamber pinch a trans jock erstwhile she transferred from nan assemblage to San Jose State University successful 2023. 

There, aft leaving Alabama for California, Slusser was thrust into a business wherever she was made to stock those spaces pinch trans teammate Blaire Fleming without moreover being told Fleming is simply a biologic male, Slusser alleges successful a lawsuit.

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Graduating students perceive to U.S. President Donald Trump present remarks astatine nan Coleman Coliseum astatine nan University of Alabama connected May 01, 2025 successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Trump's remarks travel nan time earlier charismatic commencement ceremonies.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Slusser has since fled San Jose State University and returned location to Texas aft facing alleged backlash and harassment successful nan aftermath of filing her lawsuit. 

Trump signed nan "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive bid connected Feb. 5. One time later, nan NCAA revised its gender eligibility constabulary to restrict information successful nan women's class to only biologic females. However, nan caller argumentation has besides travel nether disapproval by immoderate women's sports activists for not going acold enough. 

Alabama arsenic a authorities has had a rule successful spot to forestall trans athletes successful girls' sports successful effect since 2021, and successful 2023 it extended to see assemblage students. Unlike different laws addressing nan issue, Alabama's rule besides bars athletes assigned female astatine commencement from participating successful nan boys' class unless location is nary comparable girls' opportunity (such arsenic football).

Trans inclusion successful women and girls' sports emerged arsenic a hot-button rumor successful Trump's 2024 predetermination victory, arsenic astir Americans came to return nan Republican's broadside connected nan topic. 

A national exit poll conducted by nan Concerned Women for America (CWA) legislative action committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw nan rumor of "Donald Trump’s guidance to transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls and women’s bathrooms," arsenic important to them. 

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to graduating students astatine nan Coleman Coliseum astatine nan University of Alabama connected May 01, 2025 successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Trump's remarks travel nan time earlier charismatic commencement ceremonies.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

And 6% said it was nan astir important rumor of all, while 44% said it was "very important."

The rumor inspired a nationalist counter-culture activity against Demorat policies that support trans athletes successful women's sports, heavy influenced by young college-educated women. And Biden’s 35-point lead among young women complete Trump successful 2020 shrunk to a 24-point lead for Harris this year, per an NBC News exit poll. 

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US President Donald Trump delivers commencement remarks astatine nan University of Alabama successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama, connected May 1, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered nan immense mostly of Americans, including a mostly of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to compete successful women's sports. 

Of nan 2,128 group who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to participate successful women's sports. Of nan 1,025 group who identified arsenic Democrats aliases leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to compete pinch women. 

Nearly 70% of Americans opportunity biologic men should not beryllium permitted to compete successful women's sports, according to a Gallup poll past year.

In June 2024, a study conducted by NORC astatine nan University of Chicago asked respondents whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to participate successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender personality alternatively of their biologic sex. In that survey, 65% answered that it should ne'er aliases seldom beryllium allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big transgender female athletes competing successful women’s sports, 69% opposed it.

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