Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
House GOP Fast-Tracks Transgender Athlete Ban
metroweekly.comrules package, 12 bills that Republican lawmakers have long prioritized — primarily having to do with immigration, anti-abortion measures, and fracking — are to be voted upon “as read.”Among those is a measure to “amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”The description of the measure appears to be a reference to a bill re-introduced by U.S.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) known as the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.”The proposed legislation bars any entity that receives federal funding and that “operates, sponsors or facilitates an athletic program or activity” from allowing a person whose assigned sex at birth is male to participate in an activity specifically designated for females.Male individuals may practice with a female sports team but may not participate in female-designated activities.
The bill states that “sex shall be recognized as based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” It also directs the Comptroller General to report on how allowing a transgender person to compete on female-designated sports teams would allegedly negatively impact female athletes.A previous version of Steube’s bill passed the U.S.
House of Representatives in 2023, but failed to receive a vote in the Senate, which was controlled by Democrats at the time.A companion bill is being introduced in the Senate by Sen.
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