Presidential executive orders don’t mean much to the Michigan High School Athletic Association.

MHSAA spokesman Geoff Kimmerly told Bridge Michigan on Thursday the private nonprofit  that oversees Michigan interscholastic athletics doesn’t plan to change its policy allowing boys in girls sports, defying an executive order issued by the 47^th POTUS on Wednesday.

“We’re just waiting for the next step I suppose,” Kimmerly said, noting conflicts between the EO and Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which Democrats amended in 2023 to include gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes.

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“Obviously there’s a conflict here, and it’s going to have to be worked out one way or another,” he said.

The plan for now, Kimmerly said, is “to continue to go with our policy as is” until there’s “more clarification” on the law.

President Donald Trump’s Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports EO states it’s “the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.

“It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth,” it reads.

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MHSAA’s current policy allows biologically male transgender girls to participate in girls sports, if they secure a waiver.

“When questions arise involving trans girl (male to female) student-athletes, the MHSAA executive director will determine eligibility for MHSAA tournaments on a case-by-case basis after being provided at least 30 days prior” with specific documentation, according to the MHSAA’s 2023-24 handbook.

That documentation includes school records, health records, a physical exam, and other information, such as whether or not students have undergone hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery.

While the MHSAA is ignoring Trump’s EO, the NCAA has already changed its policies to comply, MLive reports.

The NCAA on Thursday made it clear the 530,000 student athletes at 1,100 colleges and universities it regulates across 50 states must now compete based on their biological sex.

“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”

“The updated policy combined with these resources follows through on the NCAA’s constitutional commitment to deliver intercollegiate athletics competition and to protect, support and enhance the mental and physical health of student-athletes,” he said.

Baker recently told Congress there’s currently less than 10 transgender college athletes nationwide, while Kimberly told Bridge there’s two transgender high school student athletes with active waivers in Michigan, out of about 175,000.

“There are two girls – transgender girls – that we have given waivers to this school year,” Kimberly told WEMU. “We do not track transgender boys because everybody is allowed to play on boys’ sports teams.”

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics changed its policies in August to ban transgender women who have undergone hormone therapy from competing in women’s sports.

Transgender activists are pushing back on Trump’s efforts to restore the definition of sex to male and female, both through rallies at state capitols and in the press.

“I think it’s an overreach of government,” Christopher Terkos, executive director of OutFront Kalamazoo, told WWMT. “They’re using it as a tactic to stir up and upset people…Queer and trans folks, we carry a lot every day. The pressures of not being accepted, so it’s just going to exacerbate that further.”

Plenty of others, meanwhile, are defending Trump’s “common sense” efforts.

“Men and women are not all biologically the same,” state Rep. Gina Johnson, R-Lake Odessa, told the news site. “Women need to be in women’s sports and men in men’s sports.”

“This is common sense, this is part of his common sense package to restore fairness, safety and privacy for women,” Johnson said.