News US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender-identifying men from competing in Olympic women’s sports
News US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender-identifying men from competing in Olympic women’s sports
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Original title: US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports
https://apnews.com/article/team-usa-transgender-athletes-338c43225fdfad936d4b85c1a67ced36
Quote:The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
The new policy, announced Monday with a quiet change on the USOPC’s website and confirmed in a letter sent to national sport governing bodies, follows a similar step taken by the NCAA earlier this year.
The USOPC change is noted obliquely as a detail under “USOPC Athlete Safety Policy” and references Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” signed in February. That order, among other things, threatens to “rescind all funds” from organizations that allow transgender athlete participation in women’s sports.
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AP News, July 22 2025
Original title: US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports
https://apnews.com/article/team-usa-transgender-athletes-338c43225fdfad936d4b85c1a67ced36
Quote:The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
The new policy, announced Monday with a quiet change on the USOPC’s website and confirmed in a letter sent to national sport governing bodies, follows a similar step taken by the NCAA earlier this year.
The USOPC change is noted obliquely as a detail under “USOPC Athlete Safety Policy” and references Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” signed in February. That order, among other things, threatens to “rescind all funds” from organizations that allow transgender athlete participation in women’s sports.
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