As President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports nine Carroll County athletes were among those

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designed to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls' or women’s sports.

The president is expected to sign the executive order Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refused to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” he said in the East Room of the White House before signing the order.

President Trump again targeted transgender people in a Wednesday executive order barring transgender women and girls from competing in girls' and women's sports. The big picture: The executive order denies federal funds for schools that allow trans women or girls to play in capacities corresponding with their gender identity,

Lacie DeCosta, the wife of Baltimore Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta, went to bat for President Donald Trump's executive order protecting women's sports.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at preventing transgender women from participating in women’s sports. “You’ve been waiting a long time for this. So have I,” the president told invited guests during a signing ceremony at the White House,