Donald Trump speaks on the last day of Turning Point’s four-day AmericaFest conference on Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix.
After spending the last several years arguing women’s sports are being ruined by trans swimmers with arms that are “30 feet long” and weightlifters with super-strength, Donald Trump said that what he really wants to do is end women’s boxing.
“We’re going to end that one very quickly,” he told the crowd at an event for the far-right organization Turning Point USA this past weekend.
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Women’s boxing made international headlines this past summer when Algerian boxer Imane Khelif became the subject of online rumors – which Trump helped spread – that she is transgender, even though no evidence that she is was ever made public and her family insisted that she is cisgender.
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“It’s a person that transitioned!” Trump said of Khelif in August. He then referred to Khelif with he/him pronouns and lied and claimed that Khelif had competed as a male boxer in the past, even though she has participated in women’s boxing for her entire career. “He was a good male boxer, yeah, he was a good male boxer. And [Italian boxer Angela Cirini] didn’t even go down. He hit her with two jabs and she said, ‘I’m out!’”
The fictionalized version of what happened at the Olympics apparently stuck with him because he brought up women’s boxing again at the TPUSA event.
“There’s a spirit that we have now that we didn’t have just a short while ago,” he said. “Sadly, we didn’t have. Who the hell can have spirit watching women get beat up in a boxing ring?”
“I don’t think that’s spirit, right? We’re going to end that one quick! We’re going to end it very quickly. We’re going to end that one very quickly.”
Trump also promised to end transgender rights across the board on his first day in office, saying that it will be official policy that “there are only two genders, male and female.”
“With a stroke of my pen on day one, we are going to stop the transgender lunacy,” he said.
“And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,” he added. “And we will keep men out of women’s sports, and that will likewise be done on day one. Should I do day one, day two, or day three? How about day one.”
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