Teen Vogue: Trump’s Order on Trans Athletes Likely Targets 160 or Fewer Teens Nationwide

February 26. 2025

Executive Director Noreen Farrell is quoted in a Teen Vogue article about Trump’s executive order aiming to ban trans girls from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identities.

“While the administration claims this order ‘protects women,’ it actually serves as a distraction from the real, urgent threats facing young people across the country, including denied access to reproductive health care like abortions, bans on gender-affirming healthcare, and policies forcing schools to violate student privacy about LGBTQ+ status,” said Farrell in a statement emailed to Teen Vogue shortly after the Executive Order was signed. “The suggestion that we must exclude students to protect women’s sports promotes harmful stereotypes while ignoring the actual challenges facing women’s athletics, like chronic and discriminatory underfunding of women’s sports, recruitment, scholarships, and coaching.”

Read the article.