US Olympic Committee will prohibit men in women’s sports after Trump’s order

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) will formally prohibit men in women’s sports amid the efforts of the Trump administration for reversing transgender policies throughout the United States.

The USOPC said in an email to the Olympic groups and interested parties on Tuesday that its managers had “maintained a series of respectful and constructive conversations” with federal authorities after the executive order of US President Donald Trump of February, which sought to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports”.

“Under the Trump administration we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes and we will not allow men to hit, injure and cheat our women and girls,” Trump said by signing the order. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women.”

“As an organization authorized by the Federal Government, we have the obligation to meet federal expectations,” said Usopc in his email this week.

The committee said he had updated his policies to guarantee “fair and safe competition environments for women.”

All Olympic national governing bodies must update their rules according to the new guideline, said the National Committee.

The decision generated criticism of those who advocate allowing men who identify as women compete in female sporting events. The National Women’s Law Center described the measure as a “cruel effort” to block men from female competitions.

Trump had already promised that his February executive order would block the participation of men in women’s Olympic sports in 2028, when the Summer Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles.

“We are simply not going to allow that to happen,” said the president by signing the measure.

The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive approach to reverse years of transgender policies throughout the country. In May, for example, the White House initiated an investigation into hospitals that have provided transgender medications and carried out transgender surgeries in minors.

In April, the Administration also ordered the National Institutes of Health of the United States Start a research initiative To study “regret” among people who submit to the so -called gender transition treatments.

Earlier this year, the bishops of the United States They praised Trump’s efforts to keep men out of women’s sports. Catholic leadership in recent years has become increasingly critical of transgender ideology, and Pope Francis in 2023 described transgenerism as a “of the most dangerous ideological colonizations” of today.

Republican officials have also been energized by the actions of the Trump administration on the transgender issue. Tuesday, numerous general prosecutors demanded that the National University Athletic Association (NCAA) “restores records, titles, awards and awards that legitimately won the best female athletes” and that have been stripped for allowing men to compete in female leagues.

“These champions won those records. They trained, competed and won, only for their victories to be stolen by male athletes,” said Missouri Attorney, Andrew Bailey, in a press release.

“Biological reality matters,” said the prosecutor, describing the competition of men against women as “a serious injustice” that “undermines the integrity of women’s sports.”

Meanwhile, the United States Supreme Court He said earlier this month that during their next period it will consider two cases that address if states can prohibit men from participating in women’s sports leagues.

Both cases arose from demands filed by young people who identify as women and who demanded Western Idaho and Virginia for their respective prohibitions for boys to compete in women’s sports.

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.