Trump Signs Executive Order Against Transgender Women in Sports
Washington: Tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been paused, Greenland is still Greenland, and a mooted US takeover of Gaza is yet to progress past thought bubble.
But while Donald Trump kept the world distracted with his "shock and awe" approach to power - flooding the zone, as former adviser Steve Bannon calls it - back at home the US president and his allies bulldozed their way through the country's laws, customs and institutions, frequently bending the truth to advance their cause.
On Wednesday, Trump enacted an executive order to defund any educational program that allows transgender women athletes to participate. He signed the document, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, at a ceremony in the White House surrounded by hundreds of women and girls, including swimmer and activist Riley Gaines.
A day later, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the largest governing body in the US, announced it had changed its policies accordingly for 1100 member universities and 500,000 athletes, barring trans women from competing. Previously, it had been left up to each sport's governing body.
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