After years of cowardly public officials pathetically tiptoeing around the increasingly farcical, and grotesquely unfair, issue of biologically male trans athletes competing in women’s sports, the former and quite possibly next president of the US spat out a potentially very consequential truth bomb.

“You just ban it,” he said during a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, to huge cheers from the audience. “The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.”

No dithering, no equivocation, no pandering to the virtue-signaling woke brigade, no passing the buck to sports authorities.

Trump just said what he’d do if he wins back the White House, in his normal blunt manner.

And frankly, if I were an American woman wondering which way to vote on Nov. 5, amid a constant bombardment of Democratic claims that Trump wants to destroy women’s rights, that single moment in this presidential race might tip me his way.

Because it’s the only solution to what has become an existential crisis in women’s sports.

Trump spoke out after footage emerged of an already controversial San Jose State University trans volleyball player named Blaire Fleming spiking the ball so hard into a San Diego State junior female player that she was knocked over.

There’s a dispute over whether the ball hit her in the face or shoulder, or, as slow-motion replays seem to confirm, both.

But what there can be no dispute over is the ferocious power that Fleming unleashed, and the shocking impact it had.

Nor the fact that the crowd gasped loudly when it happened.

Nor that the commentators felt compelled to comment on the victim’s startled, pink-faced state afterward.

As Trump said: “I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head … it’s a man playing in the (women’s) game.”

For once, he wasn’t being hyperbolic.

As Trump said: “I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head … it’s a man playing in the (women’s) game.”

One of Fleming’s own teammates, Brooke Slusser, has filed a lawsuit, along with a group including swimmer and women’s rights activist Riley Gaines, in which she states that Fleming is a biological male who spikes the ball at 80 mph — “faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball.”

Slusser adds: “The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not fully protect themselves.”

How the hell is this madness happening?

Have we learned nothing from the dangerous farce of women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics where one female fighter quit after just 46 seconds in the ring against a trans fighter because she’d never been hit that hard and feared for her life?

Make no mistake, if this is allowed to continue, then very soon, a woman is going to die playing against trans athletes with vastly superior natural strength and power.

That’s why Trump is so right to say he’ll ban it.

And he has the support of a large majority of Americans.