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President Donald Trump reaffirmed his promise to “get men out of the women’s movement”, stirring the hearts of University of Alabama graduates.
In a speech at the college graduation Thursday night, Trump closed down the school’s SEC champion Women’s Track and Field Team and then sparked loud applause by “Vote to Defend Women’s Sports.”
"As long as I am president, we will always protect women's sports, and men will not play football in women's sports!" Trump said, with the biggest and longest applause of the night before the crowd cheered.
"There's no way! They said it's an 80-20 issue, no, it's a 97-3 issue," Trump said. "No, men don't participate in the women's sports. I say that, I've classified it with very strong executive orders, and that's done."
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Later in the speech, Trump returned to the topic late in the speech, mocking Democrats for allowing trans athletes to participate in women's sports, while trans athletes laughed in a long rant.
In this part of the speech, Trump also discussed the women’s boxing competition at the Paris Olympics, including two gold medalists who were previously disqualified for international competitions that failed to fail the gender qualification test. However, neither Algeria's Imane Khelif nor Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting both identified it as transgender.
"They had a great champion female boxer and after one punch she went back to the corner and said 'I can't get hit that way, I've never been hit like this before."
At one point, Trump imitated female weightlifters and trans lifters physically and re-formulated the scenario where women lose competition across opponents.
Trump then targets trans swimmers, telling the story of a swimmer he jokes about being “burned” by cross-opponents.
"A young lady, she was going to set a record, she fought for the record all her life," Trump said. "Then she looked right and she saw the same thing, but there was a giant next to her... It was a transitional person, he had the wingspan of the Chamberlain."
Trump gave a similar reference to the weightlifting and swimmer scenes when he spoke at the North Carolina Republican Convention in Greensboro in June 2023.
On Thursday, Trump also mentioned female volleyball players affected by trans inclusion.
"You're watching all the volleyball players who are injured so badly are hit by levels they've never seen before," Trump said.
Brooke Slusser, a former University of Alabama women's volleyball player, got stuck in a situation where she had to share locker rooms and bedrooms with trans athletes when she moved from college to San Jose State in 2023.
There, Slusser was caught in sharing these spaces with cross-squad member Blaire Fleming, and was not even told that Fleming was a biological male, Slosser said in the lawsuit.
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Graduated students listen to a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump and speak at the Coleman Stadium at the University of Alabama on May 1, 2025. Trump's remarks came the day before the official opening ceremony. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
After that, Slusser fled San Jose State University and returned to Texas after facing rebound and harassment after filing a lawsuit.
Trump signed an executive order to "release men from women's movement" on February 5. One day later, the NCAA modified its gender-qualified police officers to limit participation in the women's category to biologically only women. However, the new policy has also been criticized by some female sports activists for not going far enough.
Alabama as a state has enacted a law to prevent women's sports from being effective for trans athletes since 2021 and expanded to include college students in 2023. Unlike other laws that address the issue, Alabama law also prohibits athletes who are assigned females at birth to participate in the boy category unless there is no comparable girl opportunity (such as football).
Transgender people in the women’s and women’s movement became a hot issue in Trump’s 2024 election victory, as most Americans came to the Republican topic.
one National export poll The women's legislative action committee conducted by the United States (CWA) Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw "Donald Trump's opposition to trans boys and men playing girls and women's sports, trans boys and men using girls and women's bathrooms" which is important to them.
U.S. President Donald Trump commented on Coleman Coliseum graduates at the University of Alabama on May 11, 2025 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Trump's remarks came the day before the official opening ceremony. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
6% said this was the most important issue, while 44% said it was “very important.”
The problem inspired a national countercultural campaign against a mean policy that allowed trans athletes to engage in women's sport, severely affected by young college-educated women. Biden leads 35 points in 2020 among young women at Trump, according to NBC News exit polls.
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his opening speech on May 1, 2025 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
one New York Times/ipsos investigation It was found that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, did not believe that trans athletes should be allowed to participate in women's sports.
Of the 2128 people involved, 79% said that biological males identified as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identify as Democrats or lean on Democrats, 67% said trans athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Nearly 70% of Americans say biological men should not be allowed to participate in female sports. Gallup poll last year.
June 2024, a survey Hosted by the University of Chicago NORC Asked whether respondents should allow transgender athletes of both men and women to participate in sports leagues corresponding to their preferred gender identity rather than biological gender. In the survey, 65% responded that it should never or rarely allowed. When the person surveyed was asked about adult transgender female athletes participating in women's sports, 69% objected.
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