Trump Tells Fox News Town Hall He Will Unilaterally Prohibit Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports: ‘You Just Ban it’

Former President Donald Trump told a Fox News town hall that he would unilaterally ban trans athletes from competing in women’s sports.

On Wednesday, the GOP nominee joined anchor Harris Faulkner for a town hall with female voters in Georgia as early voting begins in the key battleground state.

During the event, a voter by the name of Linda asked Trump how he plans on addressing the issue of trans athletes competing in women’s sports. During Trump’s first time in office, his administration banned transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

Trump responded by stating he would not consult with the leagues but instead simply outright ban transgender athletes from being able to compete in women’s sports.

TRUMP: It’s such an easy question. And everybody in the room and you know that answer, we’re not going to let it happen. Just yesterday, they had a volleyball match and did you see that — where a person that transitioned. Okay, we have to be very careful because this can terminate your political career if you say it’s slightly off for it. But transitioned from man to female and was unavailable. And I saw the slam. It was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head. But other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been permanently — I mean, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men. But you don’t have to do the volleyball. We stop it. We stop it. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. It’s a man playing in the game. I mean, physically from a muscular, even if it was a little bit less, maybe they do all sorts of tests and drugs and everything else. Look at what’s happened in swimming. Look at the records that are being broken.

FAULKNER: How do you stop it? Do you go to the sports leagues? Do you go to the Olympics?

TRUMP: You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.

[AUDIENCE CHEERS]

TRUMP: Not a big deal.

Watch the clip above via Fox News .