Megan Rapinoe rips Trump’s executive order banning trans participation in women’s sports: ‘Cruel and depraved’

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Former USWNT star Megan Rapinoe took aim at President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, calling the act "cruel and depraved." 

In a recent interview published in MUNDIAL magazine, Rapinoe raised concerns about Trump’s rhetoric surrounding trans people, specifically athletes. 

Megan Rapinoe, #15 of Team United States, lines up prior to the Women's Football Group G match between United States and Australia during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Kashima Stadium on July 27, 2021 in Kashima, Japan. (Hector Vivas - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

The interview was conducted the day after Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" executive last month. 

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"Don't tell me it's about the rights of women's sports," Rapinoe said. "That is totally just disingenuous to say that. I think it's just really cruel. You know, if you strip it all back, it's just kind of cruel and depraved. This isn't an issue, and you aren't going to be able to Executive Order trans people out of existence."

"We've just gone through a very long period over ten years of really needing to fight just to get to a baseline of, like, equal rights and non-discriminatory behaviour, and when people stop just s----ing on women's sports. I think we are sort of at that moment."

The executive order requires entities that receive federal funding to align with Title IX, which the Trump administration changed last month to recognize protections on the basis of biological sex – undoing former President Joe Biden's 2024 rewrite. 

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