Renée Richards Shares the Gender Policy Recommendation She Made to the WTA

Richards is a pioneer in tennis as the sport’s first openly transgender player. | IMAGO/Pressefoto Baumann

“Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” 

That is the title of the executive order President Donald Trump signed on Feb. 5 in the East Room of the White House. In keeping with promises Trump made on the campaign trail, this sweeping mandate essentially prohibits transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports. A failure to comply, per the order, will result in a loss of federal funding. “From now on,” says Trump, “women’s sports will only be for women.”