Queer actress Mara Wilson is going viral on social media after posting a scathing critique of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning trans women and girls from competing in women’s sports.
Wilson took to Bluesky on Wednesday after Trump signed his fourth executive order targeting transgender people that he has signed since taking office on January 20.
“I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls,” the former child star wrote on Bluesky on February 6.
Screenshot of a post made by Mara Wilson
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The executive order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” prohibits the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports categories and will mandate immediate enforcement against school and athletic associations that "deny women single-sex sports and single-sex locker rooms.”
At a signing ceremony surrounded by young female athletes, Trump falsely claimed that “men are beating up, injuring, and cheating our women and our girls” and told the crowd that "women’s sports will be only for women,” the Advocate reports.
"Under the Trump administration, we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes, and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls," Trump said at a signing ceremony surrounded by young female athletes.
Wilson’s post pointed out that Trump has railed against trans women — who he insists are “men” — entering women’s locker rooms despite the fact that in 2005, he bragged on Howard Stern’s radio shows that he was allowed backstage at the pageants he owns where women are often naked. Trump owned not only the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants but also Miss Teen USA, which features girls as young as 15.
“Well, I’ll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it,” Trump said, as reported by CNN. “You know, I’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good.”
This isn’t the first time Wilson, who came out as bi/queer back in 2017, has spoken out against rampant conservatism. She has also railed against Trump, criticized ICE, and taken on anti-abortion rights activists by posting on X (formerly Twitter).
