President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits transgender athletes in girls and women on Wednesday and promised that the order will also apply to border security for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
During the Trump ceremony at the White House to sign the executive order, he announced that the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, will prohibit transgender athletes who try to compete as women to enter the country for the Olympic Games in 2028.
Trump said he will instruct Noem “to deny each and every one of the visa applications made by men trying fraudulently to the United States while identifying themselves while athletes try to enter the games.”
On Wednesday, the Press Secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said that part of the motivation behind Trump’s executive order would be to create a “pressure campaign” for the International Olympic Committee (COI) and the NCAA for Follow and prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
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“He hopes that the Olympic Committee and the NCAA no longer allow men to compete in women’s sports,” Leavitt said. “I think the president, with the signing of his pen, begins a very public pressure campaign about these organizations to do the right thing for women and girls.
“Once again, this is an incredibly popular position. There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to speak against some very powerful institutions in this country. They deserve to have a voice and say. The president is bringing his voice. At the highest level of the White House.
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There was controversy around the eligibility of gender at the Paris Olympic Games in July and August.
The Imane Khelif boxers in Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan won gold medals in the female boxing. Both athletes had previously disqualified international competitions to fail in gender eligibility tests. However, the COI and current President Thomas Bach expressed support for both athletes. The IOC also insisted that both athletes were biologically women.
Before that, Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, competed in weightlifting for the New Zealand team, and the Canadian soccer player Quinn came out as non -binary and transgender in 2020.
With Bach preparing to leave office at the end of this year, the next president of the IOC could help to carry out Trump’s vision on the subject more cooperatively.
The former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is a candidate to be the next president of the IOC and has suggested that he will take measures to prevent transgender inclusion in women’s events.
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Coe published a manifesto for his vision as president of the IOC while campaigning for the position, and emphasized the importance of protecting female athletes.
Unlike Bach, COE opposes transgender inclusion in the women’s category and said he would explore a complete prohibition of transgender athletes in an interview with Sky News.
“We will have a very clear policy that will be unequivocal,” Coe said. “We have been very clear in world athletics that transgender athletes will not compete in the female category at the elite level.”
Lord Sebastian Coe speaks during a commemorative service for Kevan Gosper in the Olympic Hall in the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 17, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Gosper was an Olympic, former president of AOC and vice president of the IOC who died on July 19, 2024, after a brief disease. (Daniel Pockett/Getty images for AOC)
COE is the current head of World Athletics, the Government Body for International Athletics Competition. In 2023, the governing body harden its regulations on transgender athletes to exclude transgender women who have passed through male puberty to compete in the women’s category. This regulation also reduced the maximum level of testosterone for eligible female competitors.
COE said that if he becomes president of the IOC, the new Olympic policy on transgender inclusion “probably” will reflect the one that has established in world athletics. Coe has also said that the controversy surrounding Khelif and Yu-Ting made him feel “uncomfortable.”
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He United Nations Findings of the published study that say that almost 900 biological females have not been winning medals because they lost to transgender athletes.
The study “,Violence against women and girls in sports“He said that more than 600 athletes did not measure in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, with a total of more than 890 medals, according to the information obtained until March 30.
“The replacement of the women’s sports category with a mixed sex category has resulted in a growing number of athletes that lose opportunities, including medals, when they compete against men,” the report said.
