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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 11, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 9279-9281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02513]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 11, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14201 of February 5, 2025

                
Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, and to protect opportunities for women and 
                girls to compete in safe and fair sports, it is hereby 
                ordered:

                Section 1. Policy and Purpose. In recent years, many 
                educational institutions and athletic associations have 
                allowed men to compete in women's sports. This is 
                demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, 
                and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to 
                participate and excel in competitive sports.

                Moreover, under Title IX of the Education Amendments 
                Act of 1972 (Title IX), educational institutions 
                receiving Federal funds cannot deny women an equal 
                opportunity to participate in sports. As some Federal 
                courts have recognized, ``ignoring fundamental 
                biological truths between the two sexes deprives women 
                and girls of meaningful access to educational 
                facilities.'' Tennessee v. Cardona, 24-cv-00072 at 73 
                (E.D. Ky. 2024). See also Kansas v. U.S. Dept. of 
                Education, 24-cv-04041 at 23 (D. Kan. 2024) 
                (highlighting ``Congress' goals of protecting 
                biological women in education'').

                Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to 
                rescind all funds from educational programs that 
                deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, 
                which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and 
                silencing of women and girls and deprives them of 
                privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United 
                States to oppose male competitive participation in 
                women's sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, 
                fairness, dignity, and truth.

                Sec. 2. Definitions. The definitions in Executive Order 
                14168 of January 20, 2025 (Defending Women from Gender 
                Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to 
                the Federal Government), shall apply to this order.

                Sec. 3. Preserving Women's Sports in Education. (a) In 
                furtherance of the purposes of Title IX, the Secretary 
                of Education shall promptly:

(i) in coordination with the Attorney General, continue to comply with the 
vacatur of the rule entitled ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in 
Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance'' 
of April 29, 2024, 89 FR 33474, see Tennessee v. Cardona, 24-cv-00072 at 
13-15 (E.D. Ky. 2025), and take other appropriate action to ensure this 
regulation does not have effect;

(ii) take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female 
athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the 
equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 
1972, including enforcement actions described in subsection (iii); to bring 
regulations and policy guidance into line with the Congress' existing 
demand for ``equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes'' by 
clearly specifying and clarifying that women's sports are reserved for 
women; and the resolution of pending litigation consistent with this 
policy; and

(iii) prioritize Title IX enforcement actions against educational 
institutions (including athletic associations composed of or governed by 
such institutions) that deny female students an equal opportunity to 
participate in sports and athletic events by requiring them, in the women's 
category, to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.

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                    (b) All executive departments and agencies 
                (agencies) shall review grants to educational programs 
                and, where appropriate, rescind funding to programs 
                that fail to comply with the policy established in this 
                order.
                    (c) The Department of Justice shall provide all 
                necessary resources, in accordance with law, to 
                relevant agencies to ensure expeditious enforcement of 
                the policy established in this order.

                Sec. 4. Preserving Fairness and Safety in Women's 
                Sports. Many sport-specific governing bodies have no 
                official position or requirements regarding trans-
                identifying athletes. Others allow men to compete in 
                women's categories if these men reduce the testosterone 
                in their bodies below certain levels or provide 
                documentation of ``sincerely held'' gender identity. 
                These policies are unfair to female athletes and do not 
                protect female safety. To address these concerns, it is 
                hereby ordered:

                    (a) The Assistant to the President for Domestic 
                Policy shall, within 60 days of the date of this order:

(i) convene representatives of major athletic organizations and governing 
bodies, and female athletes harmed by such policies, to promote policies 
that are fair and safe, in the best interests of female athletes, and 
consistent with the requirements of Title IX, as applicable; and

(ii) convene State Attorneys General to identify best practices in defining 
and enforcing equal opportunities for women to participate in sports and 
educate them about stories of women and girls who have been harmed by male 
participation in women's sports.

                    (b) The Secretary of State, including through the 
                Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Sports 
                Diplomacy Division and the Representative of the United 
                States of America to the United Nations, shall:

(i) rescind support for and participation in people-to-people sports 
exchanges or other sports programs within which the relevant female sports 
category is based on identity and not sex; and

(ii) promote, including at the United Nations, international rules and 
norms governing sports competition to protect a sex-based female sports 
category, and, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, convene 
international athletic organizations and governing bodies, and female 
athletes harmed by policies that allow male participation in women's 
sports, to promote sporting policies that are fair, safe, and in 
furtherance of the best interests of female athletes.

                    (c) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of 
                Homeland Security shall review and adjust, as needed, 
                policies permitting admission to the United States of 
                males seeking to participate in women's sports, and 
                shall issue guidance with an objective of preventing 
                such entry to the extent permitted by law, including 
                pursuant to section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) of the Immigration 
                and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(C)(i)).
                    (d) The Secretary of State shall use all 
                appropriate and available measures to see that the 
                International Olympic Committee amends the standards 
                governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness, 
                safety, and the best interests of female athletes by 
                ensuring that eligibility for participation in women's 
                sporting events is determined according to sex and not 
                gender identity or testosterone reduction.

                Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party

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                against the United States, its departments, agencies, 
                or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                    (d) If any provision of this order, or the 
                application of any provision to any person or 
                circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of 
                this order and the application of its provisions to any 
                other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 
                thereby.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    February 5, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02513
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