Trump mocks trans athletes in women's sports to roaring applause at Alabama commencement speech

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Trump said, before the crowd erupted in cheers, for its loudest and longest applause of the night.
59% : " During a commencement speech at the university's graduation ceremony on Thursday night, Trump gave a shutout to the school's SEC champion women's track and field team, before igniting a raucous applause by "vowing to defend women's sports.
56% : Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order on Feb. 5.
55% : "One young lady, she was going to set the record, she fought all her life to set the record," Trump said.
50% : Trans inclusion in women and girls' sports emerged as a hot-button issue in Trump's 2024 election victory, as most Americans came to take the Republican's side on the topic.
48% : And Biden's 35-point lead among young women over Trump in 2020 shrunk to a 24-point lead for Harris this year, per an NBC News exit poll.
40% : During this section of the speech, Trump also discussed the Paris Olympics women's boxing competitions, which included two gold medalists who were previously disqualified from international competitions for failing gender eligibility tests.
40% : On Thursday, Trump also referenced female volleyball players who have been impacted by trans inclusion.
37% : " Trump made similar references to the weightlifting and swimmer scenarios in June 2023 while speaking at the North Carolina Republican Party's convention in Greensboro.
32% : Then Trump took aim at transgender swimmers, telling a story of a swimmer who he joked was "windburned" by a trans opponent.
31% : They say its an 80-20 issue, no, it's a 97-3 issue, I think," Trump said.
31% : " At one point, Trump did a physical impersonation of a female weight lifter and a trans weight lifter, and reenacted a scenario where the female loses a competition to a trans opponent.
28% : ON FOXNEWS.COM Later in the speech Trump circled back to the subject later in the speech, mocking the Democrats for allowing trans athletes in women's sports and the trans athletes themselves in a lengthy rant.
28% : "You look at all the volleyball players who have been hurt so badly that are hit at levels that they've never seen before," Trump said.

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