Cheers Erupt as Pres. Trump Vows to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports at Alabama Commencement [WATCH]

President Donald Trump used his Thursday night commencement address at the University of Alabama to reaffirm his administration’s policy barring biological men from competing in women’s sports, a stance that drew repeated applause from the graduating class and attendees.

Speaking to a packed crowd, Trump began by congratulating the university’s SEC champion women’s track and field team before transitioning into a central theme of his remarks—preserving fairness in women’s athletics.

“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Trump said, prompting the loudest and longest ovation of the evening.

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Trump referenced the widespread public support for his stance, saying, “They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, it’s a 97-3 issue, I think.”

He reminded the audience that he codified his administration’s position through a February executive order titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. “It’s done,” Trump added.

Graduates go WILD for President @realDonaldTrump‘s pledge protect female athletes:

“As long as I’m President, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will NOT play in women’s sports.” pic.twitter.com/NdukYheyMe

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 2, 2025

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Later in his address, Trump returned to the subject, criticizing Democrats for promoting policies that allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports categories.

President Trump breaks out his impression of a weak woman/person(?) lifting weights as he rails against transgender athletes.

Crowd ate it up. pic.twitter.com/rmfHRSfgDd

— Ryan Phillips (@JournoRyan) May 2, 2025

He cited examples from recent international competition, including the Paris Olympics’ women’s boxing qualifiers, where two gold medalists—Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan—had previously been barred from competition after failing gender eligibility tests.

Neither athlete identifies as transgender.

“They had a great champion, a female boxer, and after one punch she walked back to the corner and said, ‘I can’t get hit like that, I’ve never been hit like that before,’” Trump said.

The president also reenacted scenarios involving transgender athletes in weightlifting and swimming, including a story of a female swimmer who was, in Trump’s words, “windburned” by her much larger transgender competitor.

“She looks to the right, and she sees the same thing, but there’s a person next to her who’s a giant … that was a person that transitioned, and he had the wingspan of Wilt ‘the Stilt’ Chamberlain,” Trump said.

He previously made similar remarks during a June 2023 appearance at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention in Greensboro.

Trump also referenced ongoing concerns within women’s volleyball, citing injuries and locker room disputes tied to transgender participation.

He pointed to the case of Brooke Slusser, a former University of Alabama volleyball player who transferred to San Jose State University in 2023.

Slusser filed a lawsuit alleging she was forced to share locker room and sleeping spaces with a transgender athlete, Blaire Fleming, without being informed that Fleming was biologically male.

She has since left the university and returned home to Texas, citing harassment and retaliation.

Trump’s February 5 executive order barring biological males from participating in women’s sports was followed by a February 6 NCAA policy change limiting women’s division eligibility to biological females.

Some women’s sports advocates have criticized the NCAA’s policy for not going far enough.

Alabama has had a state-level ban on biological males participating in girls’ sports since 2021.

The law was expanded in 2023 to include college-level sports. The statute also restricts girls from playing in boys’ divisions unless no comparable girls’ team exists.

The issue of transgender participation in women’s sports became a key cultural and political flashpoint during Trump’s successful 2024 re-election campaign.

According to a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, 70% of moderate voters said Trump’s opposition to biological males competing in women’s sports and using female-only facilities was important to them.

Six percent listed it as their top issue, and 44% said it was “very important.”

Support for Trump’s position is especially strong among young, college-educated women, a demographic that has shifted notably since 2020.

Joe Biden’s 35-point advantage among young women voters shrank to 24 points for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, according to NBC News exit polling.

Additional polling has echoed public support for limiting women’s sports to biological females.

A New York Times/Ipsos survey conducted with 2,128 respondents found 79% of Americans believe transgender women should not compete in women’s sports.

Among self-identified Democrats or Democrat-leaning respondents, 67% agreed.

A Gallup poll in 2023 found nearly 70% of Americans opposed allowing biological males to participate in women’s athletic events.

A NORC survey from June 2024 conducted by the University of Chicago reported 65% of respondents believed transgender athletes should rarely or never be allowed to compete based on gender identity rather than biological sex.

When asked specifically about adult transgender women in female sports, 69% opposed their participation.

Trump’s remarks at the University of Alabama reflected his continued prioritization of the issue, which remains central to his administration’s education and gender policy initiatives.

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