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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nTuesday\, March 4\, 2025\n \n\nRELEASE: 
 Governor Braun Signs Executive Orders to Protect Women’s Sports and Rein
 force Indiana’s Legal Definition of Sex\n\n\nINDIANAPOLIS – Governor M
 ike Braun today signed two executive orders to ensure fairness in women’
 s sports and rejecting extreme gender ideology in favor of the scientific 
 reality of biological sex.\n\nThe executive order protecting opportunities
  for women in college sports comes ahead of International Women’s Day th
 is Saturday\, and follows Governor Braun’s landmark executive order expa
 nding paid parental and childbirth recovery leave for women signed Monday.
  \n\nExecutive Order 25-35: Protecting Opportunities in Post-Secondary Wom
 en’s Sports \n\nThis executive order mandates that Indiana’s state edu
 cational institutions must comply with the 2020 Title IX Rule rather than 
 the 2024 Biden Administration reinterpretation that extended protections b
 ased on self-reported\, ever-changing new idea of “gender identity.” \
 n\nThe order ensures that female athletes in college sports are not forced
  to compete against biological males\, preserving the integrity of women
 ’s athletics and protecting opportunities for women in female-only sport
 s leagues. \n\n"Women’s sports create opportunities for young women to e
 arn scholarships and develop leadership skills. Hoosiers overwhelmingly do
 n’t want those opportunities destroyed by allowing biological males to c
 ompete in women’s sports\, and today’s executive order will make sure 
 of that.” —  Governor Mike Braun\n\nExecutive Order 25-36: Ensuring In
 diana Law is Based on the Reality of Biological Sex Rather than Extreme Ne
 w Gender Theories \n\nAlongside protections for women’s sports\, Governo
 r Braun also signed an executive order making clear that Indiana will not 
 go along with the extreme gender ideology that created the problem in wome
 n’s sports in the first place.\n\n“Replacing the scientific fact of bi
 ological sex with the always-changing\, self-reported idea of ‘gender id
 entity’ has real consequences: it puts women in danger in female-only sp
 aces like prisons\, it destroys opportunities for women in sports\, and it
  tells troubled kids that their mental health problems can be solved with 
 sterilizing drugs and irreversible sex change operations. Indiana will not
  go along with this radical new idea of what gender means\, and we will no
 t allow tax dollars to be used to promote this ideology — instead\, we
 ’re going to focus on providing Freedom and Opportunity for all Hoosiers
 .” —  Governor Mike Braun\n\n\n###\n\nGriffin Reid\nOffice of Governor
  Mike Braun\nEmail: greid@gov.in.gov\nCell: 317-391-9475
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