INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Governor Mike Braun has signed two executive orders, aiming to end what his office labeled as "extreme gender ideology."
One of the executive orders prohibits transgender women from competing in collegiate women's sports.
The order mandates that state education systems comply with a 2020 Title IX Rule rather than the Biden administration's updated mandate in 2024.
"Women’s sports create opportunities for young women to earn scholarships and develop leadership skills," Gov. Braun said in a press release. "Hoosiers overwhelmingly don’t want those opportunities destroyed by allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, and today’s executive order will make sure of that.”
In a second executive order, Braun mandates the state only recognize two genders: male and female, which would be determined at conception under the order.
“Replacing the scientific fact of biological sex with the always-changing, self-reported idea of ‘gender identity’ has real consequences," Gov. Braun said in the release. "It puts women in danger in female-only spaces like prisons, it destroys opportunities for women in sports, and it tells troubled kids that their mental health problems can be solved with sterilizing drugs and irreversible sex change operations."
