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This Left-Wing State Finally Banned Transgender Athletes

Madeline Leesman
Madeline Leesman  |  February 20, 2025 3:15 PM

Townhall covered how President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning so-called “transgender women” from women’s sports during his first weeks in office. 

Despite this, the Democrat states of Minnesota, Maine, and California worked to openly defy this order.

In Maine, a biological male was allowed to compete against girls and win a pole vaulting competition. 

This week, one blue state went in another direction. The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA), which oversees most of the state's high-school athletics programs, announced Wednesday that it updated its policies that only biological female athletes would be allowed to compete in women’s competitions.

"Today the WIAA Board of Control voted to update the organization's policy regarding student-athlete eligibility – affirming its compliance with federal directives that only students designated as females at birth will be allowed to participate in girls competitions," WIAA executive director Stephanie Hauser said in a release.

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"Working in consultation with legal counsel, our Board updated this policy to ensure clarity is provided to our membership as they work to comply with new federal guidance from the White House,” she added.

Last year, the state’s Democrat governor, Tony Evers, vetoed a bill that would have protected women’s sports from so-called “transgender athletes.”

When Trump signed his executive order, he called it "common sense" to ban men from women’s sports.

"From now on, women's sports will be only for women," he said. "The war on women's sports is over."

"America rejects transgender lunacy," he added.