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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 sportspecific 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 5, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02513 

Filed 2–10–25; 8:45 am] 

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