Donald Trump says women's sports will 'die and end' if transgender athletes are allowed to compete

Donald Trump has slammed the inclusion of transgender women competing in women's sports, claiming that records "are now being smashed with ease" and that women's sports "as we know it will die".

Delivering his first major speech since exiting the White House back in January, the former president appeared at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida on Sunday (February 28).

And after teasing a third presidential run - telling the crowd "I may even decide to beat [the Democrats] for a third time" - Trump turned his attention to transgender athletes, focusing primarily on trans women in sports.

Addressing the applauding audience, the 74-year-old slammed Biden's policies and said: "A lot of new records are being broken in women’s sports, I hate to say that ladies, but you have got a lot of new records that are being shattered."

Watch Trump's address below:

Trump added: "Young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males. That is not good for women.

"That is not good for women’s sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they were.

"The records that stood for years and decades are now being smashed with ease, smashed. If this is not changed women’s sports as we know it will die and end."

During his speech, Trump also mimicked female powerlifters, earning him laughs from the crowd.

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Concluding his point, Trump told those in attendance: "I think it's crazy what is happening, we must protect the integrity of women’s sports.

"And I don’t even know, is that controversial? Someone said, 'Well that’s going to be very controversial', and I said, 'That’s okay, you have not heard anything yet.'"

After making his point, many of those in the crowd stood to give the former president a standing ovation.

Trump's speech comes days after the House passed a historic gay and transgender reform bill aimed at safeguarding the equalities of the community.

Additionally, Trump would take aim at his successor, President Joe Biden, describing these early days in Biden's reign as "the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history".