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The question arose after Donald Trump signed an executive order last month prohibiting transgender women from participating in women’s sports.
President Donald Trump gave a blunt response when asked to define what a woman is.
During a public event on Friday (March 28), a reporter posed the question: “Mr. President, since Democrats seem to struggle with this question… what is a woman, and why is it important to understand the difference between men and women?”
Trump appeared eager to respond to the question, which came shortly after he appointed Alina Habba as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
“It’s pretty easy for me to answer,” he said. “A woman is somebody who can have a baby under certain circumstances… A woman is a person who, in my experience, is much smarter than a man.”
He continued: “A woman is someone who doesn’t even give a man a chance of success. And a woman is a person who, in many cases, has been treated very badly.”
Shifting the conversation to transgender athletes in women’s sports, Trump added: “This whole issue of men being allowed to compete in women’s sports is ridiculous, very unfair to women, and incredibly demeaning. That’s got to be about a 94 percent issue.”
“I saw Democrat congressmen advocating for men to compete in women’s sports, and I thought, ‘I hope they keep pushing that because they’ll never win an election.’”
Trump continued, “Women are incredible. They contribute so much to our country. We love our women, and we’re going to stand up for them.”
Last month, Trump signed an executive order barring transgender women from competing in women’s sports. He previously declared that “the war on women’s sports is over,” adding, “My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”
Meanwhile, earlier this week, a second federal judge blocked Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military, calling it “plainly” discriminatory.
“The government’s arguments are not persuasive, and on this record, it is not an especially close question,” wrote District Judge Benjamin Settle.
He further stated, “The government has provided no evidence showing that military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any other long-standing justifications for excluding certain groups have actually been harmed by open transgender service. The Court can only conclude that there is none.”
This follows an earlier ruling by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who blocked the order earlier this month, stating that it violates the equal protection clause by discriminating based on transgender status and sex.
Reyes condemned the ban as “soaked in animus,” asserting, “Its language is openly demeaning, its policy unfairly labels transgender individuals as inherently unfit, and its conclusions have no basis in fact.”
“The bitter irony is that thousands of transgender service members—some putting their lives on the line—have fought to uphold the very equal protection rights that the Military Ban seeks to strip away from them.”
