American Catholic bishops have applauded President Trump’s executive order banning biological males from participating in women’s sports.
“We welcome the President’s Executive Order that protects opportunities for women and girls to compete in sports safely and fairly,” said Bishops Robert Barron and David M. O’Connell, who head up — respectively — the Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and the Committee on Catholic Education.
“Consistent with the Catholic Church’s clear teaching on the equality of men and women, we reaffirm that, in education and in sports as elsewhere, policies must uphold human dignity,” the bishops stated.
“This includes equal treatment between women and men and affirmation of the goodness of a person’s body, which is genetically and biologically female or male,” they added.
In his Feb. 5 executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” President Trump said that the practice of allowing men to compete in women’s sports is “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports.”
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