Karoline Leavitt Issues Warning To Officials Who Defy Trump Executive Order On Women's Sports Rules

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Karoline Leavitt issues a warning to officials who defy President Trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports.

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00:00Thanks so much, Caroline, both for having us and for granting me the first question here.

00:04Sure.

00:04And I can attest to the deportations in Florida.

00:06My Uber drivers finally speak English again, so thank you for that.

00:10My question for you is, what are the administration's plans for those who continue to defy the executive orders?

00:16Most notably, on my mind, are the ones related to what some would call trans men.

00:20I would call men masquerade as trans women, which are men masquerading as girls in girls sports.

00:25Sure.

00:26Obey federal law or you will be prosecuted.

00:29Obey federal law and you could see your federal funding cut, whether you are a college or university.

00:35We have seen the president, again, using the leverage of this administration to negotiate deals with some of the biggest colleges and universities in this country.

00:45And if they don't want to come to the negotiating table to apologize for the federal laws they have broken,

00:49to apologize for allowing Jewish American students on our nation's campuses to be unlawfully bullied and harassed,

00:56then there's going to be consequences for that illegal behavior.

01:00Same thing with men in women's sports.

01:01The president signed a very strong executive order, making it the policy of the United States federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female,

01:10and we are not going to tolerate biological men competing in sports or impeding in private spaces for women like myself or you.

01:17And we've seen states defy this federal order.

01:20You've seen the state of Maine, unfortunately, because of their liberal governor, who nobody in that state disagrees with, I will add, being from New England, I can attest to that.