Donald Trump pledges to ban trans athletes from participating in women's sports if reelected

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday, October 16, that he would ban transgender athletes from participating in women's sports if he is elected in November.

The former president made the statement while answering a question from a member of the all-female audience during a town hall on Fox News Channel’s 'The Faulkner Focus', per the New York Post.

Donald Trump pledges to ban trans athletes from taking part in women's sports

Donald Trump was asked during the Town Hall how he would address "the transgender issue in women’s sports" and he simply replied by saying "Such an easy question."

He then said noting the dangers involved with transgender athletes playing against women, "Everybody in the room and you know that answer, we’re not going to let it happen."

The ex-POTUS then referred to an October 10 incident where a San Diego State University women’s volleyball player was hit in the face by an opponent who had transitioned from male to female and ended up knocking the player down.

Trump said, "I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head. But other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been permanently — I mean, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men."

He added, "But you don’t have to do the volleyball. We stop it. We stop it. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it."

Host Harris Faulkner asked Trump how he would end the practice. She asked, "How do you stop it? Do you go to the sports leagues? Do you go to the Olympics?"

Trump simply replied, "You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen."

Donald Trump falsely labels two Olympic gold medal athletes as men

While speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in August, Donald Trump decried two gold medalist Olympic athletes and pledged to "keep men out of women’s sports."

Boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Li Yu-ting of Taiwan faced misconceptions about their gender formed due to the fallout from the Olympic-banished​ International Boxing Association’s decision in 2023 to disqualify them from the world championships for allegedly failing an eligibility test.

Notably, Trump did not mention their names but said that "in the Olympics, they had two transitioned. They were men. They transitioned to women, and they were in the boxing."

Donald Trump vows to end sanctuary cities and restore 'normalcy'

During the Town Hall, Donald Trump vowed to end sanctuary cities and restore 'normalcy'. A woman asked Trump about the issue of crime and public safety after the murder of nursing student Laken Riley earlier in 2024.

Trump said, "We can do things in terms of moving people out. We can move them out of the sanctuary cities. We're going to end all sanctuary cities in the United States, and we're going to go back to normalcy. And we're going to have law and order."

Another woman asked the former president about the rising cost of living for families and his plans for the child tax credit. Trump answered, "I gave you the largest tax cuts in the history of our country."

He added, "Larger than the Reagan cuts. Larger. I understand exactly what you're saying. We're going to readjust things so that it's fair to everybody, because it's really not fair to everybody… We're going up higher, but we're also going to readjust because you have to make some readjustments."