Former President Donald Trump promised on Thursday that he would ban men competing in women’s sports, telling radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he planned to put an end to President Joe Biden’s Title IX rewrite “on day one.”

Travis shared the news in a post to X, saying, “President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.”

President Trump just pledged to all of us on @clayandbuck that men will not be allowed to compete against women in sports when he is elected president. He promises to take care of it on day one and end Kamala and Biden’s new Title IX policies allowing this to happen.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 1, 2024

Trump also posted on Truth Social on Thursday, “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!”

Trump’s promise comes on the heels of Olympic controversy after Italian Angela Carini pulled out of her fight with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif — who was disqualified from the 2023 world championships in New Delhi after the International Boxing Association declared that Khelif had “XY chromosomes” and elevated testosterone levels — after less than one minute.

As announced earlier in the summer, the official 2024 GOP platform addresses recent moves — supported by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and a majority of elected Democrats — to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women’s athletics.

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“We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex-change surgeries, and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX education regulations, and restore protections for women and girls.”

The @GOP platform reflects the majority of Americans who want to protect women’s sports. We must fight back against Far Left Democrats and their radical woke agenda that steals opportunities away from women.

We will also cut federal funding for any school that pushes woke… pic.twitter.com/Q6SkA9622Z

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 11, 2024

A federal appeals court sided with Texas on Tuesday, saying that the state does not have to remove a water buoy barrier placed in the Rio Grande to deter illegal immigration.

In its decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Biden administration failed to provide evidence that the barrier needed to be removed, vacating a lower court’s order. The Justice Department had filed a lawsuit against Texas accusing it of violating federal law after it placed a chain of floating buoys along a stretch of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. 

“Cognizant of our role as a court of review and of the reality that a preliminary injunction is an exceptional remedy, we hold that the district court clearly erred in finding that the United States will likely prove that the barrier is in a navigable stretch of the Rio Grande,” Circuit Judge Don Willett wrote. “We cannot square the district court’s findings and conclusions with over a century’s worth of precedent, which on a fair and faithful reading renders inapplicable or unpersuasive the evidence on which the district court relies.”

Willett said the lower court sided with the DOJ, saying that the barrier threatened human life and safety, impaired navigation, and violated the Rivers and Harbors Act. He said that neither justification was supported by the evidence. 

The decision specifically criticized the district court attributing the barrier to drownings in the river. 

“The district court again set aside reason by inferring that the barrier caused the deaths of two people found nearby—one at the southern end of the barrier and the other three miles upriver — from news articles that said nothing of the sort,” Willett wrote.

In a dissent, Circuit Judge Dana Douglas wrote that the lower court’s decision was backed by the evidence.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Republican Governor Greg Abbott celebrated the decision.

“We fought to keep these barriers in the water, and with the Fifth Circuit’s decision, that is exactly where they will remain,” Abbott said. “This fight is far from over. Texas will continue to defend our constitutional right to secure our southern border to keep our state and the nation safe.”

Further litigation on the barriers is expected to begin on August 6.