Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House, April 14, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Bukele then said that despite previous efforts to advance women’s rights and prevent abuse, new efforts would "backtrack" on these initiatives and perpetuate violence against women instead.
"I think those laws were great because there were a lot of men abusing women, but now some of the same people are trying to backtrack and actually trying to make new laws allowing men to abuse women, as in sports," Bukele said. "So actually, that doesn't make sense."
Trump signed an executive order in February barring those assigned male at birth from competing in women’s sports, titled, "No Men in Women's Sports." The order bans those assigned male at birth from using women’s restrooms and orders the Department of Education to spearhead investigations into cases of possible violations.
President Donald Trump greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In response, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that it would follow the guidance and permit only those assigned female at birth to participate in women’s sports.
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"The NCAA is an organization made up of 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states that collectively enroll more than 530,000 student-athletes. We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions. To that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard," NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement in February.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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