A New York judge ruled against a university that blocked a transgender athlete from competing in a women’s track meet, saying that state law banning discrimination based on gender identity supersedes President Trump’s executive order on female sports.
State Judge Richard McNally rejected a motion from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Sadie Schreiner, a transgender runner who was barred from a 2025 women’s track meet hosted by the university.
The institute cited Mr. Trump’s Executive Order 14201, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” but Judge McNally called the order an “interpretive statement that details the executive branch’s opinion on how Title IX should be interpreted.”
“Executive Order 14201 is not a statute, it is not a regulation, and it does not concern foreign policy,” he said in his Thursday opinion. “As such, Executive Order 14201 does not preempt state law.”
He also dismissed the university’s Title IX defense, saying the university “merely gives lip service to its argument that Title IX categorically bans all transgender women from competing in women’s sports” without citing specific Department of Education regulations.
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