President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) agree on something.
Trump recently said that he thinks that the Democratic Party cost itself votes by supporting transgender-identifying males competing in women’s sports.
Trump made this point in an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, December 8.
The interviewer, Kristen Walker, asked Trump about Project 2025, a compilation of conservative policy papers released by the Heritage Foundation.
Trump has mixed feelings about Project 2025 and has said he supports some of the policies while opposing others. For example, Trump has repeatedly expressed opposition to entitlement reform and federal restrictions on abortion access, items included in Project 2025.
However, Trump said Democrats could learn from what he sees as the good ideas in the policy paper — including keeping males out of women’s sports.
“Some of it’s very mainstream actually,” Trump said during the interview. “Frankly, the Democrats should’ve used some of it because they went, you know, with all the transgender that they were doing, or with the men playing in women’s sports, if they wouldn’t have done that, maybe they would’ve done better.”
Here is what Project 2025 says about males in women’s sports, and what the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education should do about it:
Civil Rights Data Collection On December 13, 2021, OCR published a notice concerning proposed revisions to OCR’s Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). In this notice, OCR proposed:
To create and collect data on a new “nonbinary” sex category (in addition to the current “male” or “female” sex categories).
To retire data collection that indicates the number of:
High school–level interscholastic athletics sports in which only male and female students participate.
High school–level athletics teams in which only male or female students participate.
Participants on high school–level interscholastic athletics sports teams in which only male or only female students participate.
These poorly conceived changes are contrary to law, fail to take account of student privacy interests and statutory protections favoring parental rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, and jettison longstanding data collections that assist in the enforcement of Title IX.
The new Administration must quickly move to rescind these changes, which add a new “nonbinary” sex category to OCR’s data collection, and issue a new CRDC that will collect data directly relevant to OCR’s statutory enforcement authority.
Point number 17 of Trump’s 20-point Agenda 47 platform from the 2024 presidential campaign says “Keep men out of women’s sports.”
In the NBC interview, Trump echoed a similar sentiment to that of Moulton, who said last month that keeping males out of women’s sports is common sense policy — and that it shouldn’t be controversial for him to say that as a Democrat.
“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Moulton told a New York Times reporter on Thursday, November 7. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on the playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
A June 2023 Gallup poll found that 69 percent of Americans think people should compete on sports teams that align with their sex, rather than their self-selected gender identity.
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