Before signing an executive order Wednesday to try to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports in schools and other settings, President Donald Trump repeated a lie he told last year. He asserted that two Olympians who won gold in women’s boxing events last year were men who “transitioned.

White House officials argue the measures are not aimed at stopping transgender people from athletic participation, but at ensuring that they do not have a biological advantage in sports competitions.

President Donald Trump is signing an executive order designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls' sporting events