President Donald Trump surprised the professional football players who stood behind him in the Oval Office with his excavation in transgender athletes and asked them if women could make their men's team.
The guests of honor were all in the city because of the FIFA Club World Cup, with the president of the organization, Gianni Infantino, who stood next to players and representatives of the Italian Kolos Juventus.
Included in the Juventus representation were Americans Weston McKennie and Tim Weah, both of which will be in the national team of the United States for the World Cup of next summer.
Trump's first question to the present football players in the White House was for McKennie about transgender athletes.
'Can a woman make your team boys? Tell me, do you think? “Trump told his fellow American.
McKennie looked stunned, who postponed an answer to Weah, and then the Italian star Manuel Locatelli, who reacted respectfully with “Yes.”
“You are nice,” Trump responded to Locatelli.
'What do you think, do you think a woman could make the team? General managers, what do you think? “Trump said and turned to part of the Juventus leadership.
“We have a very good ladies team,” Juventus general director Damien Comolli told Trump.
'You have it, but they should play with women. It's one of those things. You see, they are very diplomatic.
Trump's opinion to professional athletes comes after his bill to ban biological male athletes to compete in women's sports, fell into the Senate last month.
Legislation that aimed to prohibit transvrouws and girls nationally from participation in school athletic competitions that have been designated for female athletes did not succeed in going into a divided senate because Democrats were united against an issue that the Republicans held in last year's elections.
A test vote about the bill could not achieve the 60 votes needed to move forward in the room, while senators held up to party lines in a 51-45 voice count. The bill tried to determine the title IX protection, exclusively on the basis of the reproductive biology and genetics of a person at birth. '
One of the latest examples of Trump and his administration trying to block transgender athletes for competing happened in California, before the Los Angeles protests, with BaanAtleet Ab Hernandez.
The California Inscholastic Federation (CIF) broadened the field at the High School Track-and-Field Championships while Trump's Ministry of Justice is investigating the participation of a transgenderatleet.
California opened the event for more girls after Hernandez had criticized for the qualification for the meeting. The CIF now allows an extra competitor in three events with the 16-year-old Hernandez.
The control change is temporary, according to the CIF, and not a direct response to Trump's recent online criticism of the state policy of California or Governor Gavin Newsom.
As a transgender athlete medals at this weekend's state championships outside Fresno, their ranking will not expel a 'biological female' student of medal. So if Hernandez medals in the high jump, triple jump or long jump, the stage will include an extra competitor, who will also get a medal.
The Federation has not announced any plans to verify whether a competitor meets the definition of 'biological woman'.
The American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association have both stated that gender is a spectrum and not a binary structure, such as the White House argued in the executive order of 20 January 'Women from genderidology'.
Juventus was attracted to a club World Cup group against the English powerhouse Manchester City, as well as Wydad AC of Morocco and Al Ain FC from the United Arab Emirates.