President Donald Trump has signed an executive decree prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in sports of girls and women on Wednesday and has sworn that the order will also apply to border security for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
During the Trump ceremony in the White House to sign the decree, he announced that the interior security secretary, Kristi Noem, will prohibit transgender athletes who will try to compete as women to enter the country for Olympic Games in 2028.
Trump said he would ask Noem “to deny all visa requests presented by men who try to fraudulently penetrate in the United States while identifying themselves while female athletes are trying to embark on games.”
Earlier Wednesday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that part of the motivation behind Trump’s decree would be to create a “pressure campaign” for the International Olympic Committee (CIO) and the NCAA To follow and prevent transgender athletes from participating in female sports.
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“He expects the Olympic Committee and the NCAA to not allow men to participate in female sports,” said Leavitt. “I think the president, with the signing of his pen, begins a very public pressure campaign on these organizations to do the right thing for women and girls.
“Once again, it is an incredibly popular position. There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to denounce very powerful institutions in this country. They deserve to have a voice and a word to say. The president brings their voice to the highest level of the White House.
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There was a controversy surrounding gender eligibility at the Paris Olympic Games in July and August.
Imane Khelif boxers from Algeria and Taiwan yu-te Lin has won gold medals in women’s boxing. The two athletes had already been disqualified from international competitions for failing the sexual eligibility tests. However, the IOC and the current president Thomas Bach expressed support for the two athletes. The IOC also insisted that the two athletes were biologically female.
Before that, Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, participated in the weightlifting for the New Zealand team, and the Canadian football player Quinn came out non-binary and transgender in 2020.
Bach preparing to leave office later this year, the next IOC president could help Trump’s vision on the more cooperation issue.
The former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is a candidate to be the next president of the IOC and suggested that he would take measures to prevent transgender inclusion in female events.
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Coe has published a manifesto for his vision as president of the IOC while campaigning for the position, and that stressed the importance of protecting female athletes.
Unlike Bach, COE opposes transgender inclusion in the women’s category and said that it would explore a complete ban on transgender athletes in an interview with Sky News.
“We will have a very clear policy that will be unambiguous,” said Coe. “We were very clear in world athletics that transgender athletes will not participate in the female category at the level of the elite.”
Lord Sebastian Coe speaks during a commemorative service for Kevan Gosper in the Olympic room of Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 17, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. Gosper was an Olympian, former president of the AOC and vice-president of the IOC who died on July 19, 2024, after a short illness. (Daniel Pockett / Getty Images for AOC)
Coe is the current chief of world athletics, the director director of the international athletics competition. In 2023, the Director Body tightened its regulations on transgender athletes to exclude transgender women who crossed male puberty to participate in the female category. These regulations also lowered the maximum level of testosterone for eligible female competitors.
Coe said that if he became president of the IOC, the new Olympic Policy on Transgender inclusion would “probably” reflect that which he established in world athletics. Coe also said that the controversy surrounding Khelif and Yu-Ting me felt “uncomfortable”.
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THE The United Nations The results of the study published that nearly 900 biological women have lacked from victory medals because they lost against transgender athletes.
The study, “Violence against women and girls in sport“Said that more than 600 athletes have not been a medalist in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, totaling more than 890 medals, according to information obtained until March 30.
“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed sex category has led to an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, during competition against men,” said the report.
