President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing successful girls and women's sports Wednesday and vowed the bid volition besides use to borderline information for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
During Trump's ceremonial astatine the White House to motion the enforcement order, helium announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem volition prohibit immoderate transgender athletes attempting to vie arsenic women from entering the state for the Olympics successful 2028.
Trump said helium volition instruct Noem "to contradict immoderate and each visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently participate the United States portion identifying themselves arsenic women athletes effort and get into the Games."
Earlier Wednesday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said portion of the information down Trump's enforcement bid would beryllium to make a "pressure campaign" for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and NCAA to travel and forestall transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports.
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"He does expect the Olympic committee and the NCAA to nary longer let men to vie successful women’s sports," Leavitt said. "I deliberation the president, with the signing of his pen, starts a precise nationalist unit run connected these organizations to bash the close happening for women and for girls.
"Again, this is an incredibly fashionable position. There person been galore notable pistillate athletes who person had the courageousness to talk retired against immoderate precise almighty institutions successful this country. They merit to person a dependable and a say. The president is bringing their dependable to the highest level of the White House. He expects these organizations to comply with this national enforcement bid helium volition beryllium signing today."
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There was contention surrounding sex eligibility astatine the Paris Olympics successful July and August.
Boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won golden medals successful women's boxing. Both athletes had antecedently been disqualified from planetary competitions for failing sex eligibility tests. However, the IOC and existent President Thomas Bach voiced enactment for some athletes. The IOC besides insisted that some athletes were biologically female.
Before that, Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, competed successful weightlifting for the New Zealand team, and Canadian shot subordinate Quinn came retired arsenic nonbinary and transgender successful 2020.
With Bach preparing to permission bureau aboriginal this year, the IOC's adjacent president could assistance transportation retired Trump's imaginativeness connected the contented much cooperatively.
Former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is simply a campaigner to beryllium the adjacent IOC president and has suggested helium volition instrumentality enactment to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's events.
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Coe published a manifesto for his imaginativeness arsenic IOC president arsenic helium campaigns for the position, and it stressed the value of protecting pistillate athletes.
Unlike Bach, Coe opposes transgender inclusion successful the women's class and said helium would research a implicit prohibition connected transgender athletes successful an interrogation with Sky News.
"We volition person a precise wide argumentation that volition beryllium unambiguous," Coe said. "We've been precise wide successful World Athletics that transgender athletes volition not beryllium competing successful the pistillate class astatine the elite level."
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Lord Sebastian Coe speaks during a memorial work for Kevan Gosper successful the Olympic Room astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground Sept. 17, 2024, successful Melbourne, Australia. Gosper was an Olympian, erstwhile AOC president and IOC vice president who died July 19, 2024, aft a abbreviated illness. (Daniel Pockett/Getty Images for the AOC)
Coe is the existent caput of World Athletics, the governing assemblage for planetary way and tract competition. In 2023, the governing assemblage tightened its regulations connected transgender athletes to exclude transgender women who person gone done antheral puberty from competing successful the pistillate category. That regularisation besides lowered the maximum testosterone level for eligible pistillate competitors.
Coe said if helium becomes IOC president, the caller Olympic argumentation connected transgender inclusion volition "probably" bespeak the 1 helium has established successful World Athletics. Coe has besides said the contention surrounding Khelif and Yu-ting made him consciousness "uncomfortable."
The United Nations released survey findings saying that astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of winning medals due to the fact that they mislaid to transgender athletes.
The study, "Violence against women and girls successful sports," said much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.
"The replacement of the pistillate sports class with a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding fig of pistillate athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," the study said.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.