The Ongoing Legal Battle for Women’s Sports
The order is facing ongoing legal battles from state-level Democratic officials and transgender advocacy groups.
House lawmakers passed a bill to codify the prohibition of men in women’s sports, but the effort stalled in the Senate after it failed to receive any Democratic support in that chamber.
Meet January Littlejohn, Parental Rights Advocate
January Littlejohn, a mother and parental rights advocate from Tallahassee, Florida, is also expected to attend the event as a guest of the president.
Littlejohn sued the Leon County School Board after school officials socially transitioned her middle-school-aged daughter. According to the White House, the school began treating her as though she was a boy without her parents’ knowledge or permission.
“The school drove a wedge between January’s daughter and her parents and deceived January about their covert plan to transition her daughter,” according to the White House.
Trump also signed an executive order to deny federal funding from K–12 schools that socially transition a child’s gender. A social transition refers to treating a child as a gender that is not consistent with his or her biological sex.
