
Transgender athlete debate rolls on six months after executive order
Katie Barnes and Paula Lavigne
created: Aug. 6, 2025, 7 a.m. | updated: Aug. 8, 2025, 11:52 a.m.
Six months after Trump's executive order, debate around transgender athletes continues to roil nationwide.
Sullivan, who had already stopped competing for Wagner College because of the executive order, continued to enter USA Fencing events.
In competitions between cisgender women and transgender women, cisgender women prevailed in 55% of the bouts for which he has data, he said.
Following Trump's executive order, the USBC adopted a policy that made transgender women ineligible for the women's category.
Parker Tirrell, a 16-year-old soccer player in New Hampshire, is challenging her state's ban on transgender athletes and Trump's executive order.
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