The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced a change to its Athlete Safety Policy on Monday, formally barring transgenders (men who live as women) from competing in women’s categories at both Olympic and Paralympic events. The policy shift brings the USOPC into compliance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” signed Feb. 5.
The revised guidelines state that eligibility for women’s sports will now be determined strictly by biological sex, although the guidelines refer to this as “sex assigned at birth.” As a result, transgenders who are biological males will be directed to compete in men’s or open categories, effectively ending access to women’s divisions for any athlete not born female.
The USOPC policy does not explicitly reference transgender athletes. Instead, it adopts the terminology and framework set out in the presidential executive order, which focuses on safeguarding what it describes as the integrity of women’s sports.
This update reverses USOPC policy, which at last as in April 2025 had deferred decisions on gender eligibility to individual international federations and national governing bodies. Under the new directive, all NGBs are now required to adopt uniform policies based on biological sex. The change applies across all levels of competition, from grassroots programs to elite international events, and will directly increase the chances for women athletes competing for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
With this latest action, the United States becomes one of the first major Olympic nations to codify such restrictions across all sporting disciplines in response to national policy.
Let’s celebrate this!!
I voted for this! Now that it’s official, all the men who couldn’t hack it in men’s sports and decided to switch to dominate in the women’s sports should be pointed at and publicly humiliated for their asinine behavior. Just like would have happened in grade school. Everyone gets a trophy? Not any more, buddy.
Kristen Faulkner is looking pretty manly. Just sayin’
Very difficult to understand how you can ban something that doesn’t exist.
Good, it doesn’t exist, & this will make sure it never does.
Another good job by DJT
Absolutely!!! This is a win for women everywhere! 👐 About time Morals would prevail and they have!
Amen! Whoever thought we would be dealing with such insanity.
So many men (who in their minds)thought they were great athletes are very disappointed in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Biological sex? We can dispense with the adjective; everyone is either one sex or the other. The adjective “biological” is an unnecessary ruse. As to so-called “intersex” people, it is a nonsense term for people who are either male or female but are afflicted with genetic deformities or mutations. Let us please use accurate language. Otherwise, we are patronizing the liars.
While this is wonderful news, I have one gripe to air: “gender” and/or “sex” are not “assigned” – at birth or whenever. They are chromosome determined by the creative act of conception, period. But what about all the alphabet “genders”? They are not genetic, but changed at a later time. Books and theses are written, I’ll not try to take the time or space here. “Assigned” is simply the wrong term, is very unhelpful, and gives the alphabet crowd an excuse to claim things that are not.
They can always form another category for this group of Olympic contenders who have had a myriad of surgeries and hormone treatments all at different levels of transformation.
We can then please the all inclusive crowd who recognizes these individuals as Olympians.
After all they are all very “special”.
Good stuff. Cultural is returning to sanity little by little.
I for one enjoyed a June without being constantly bombarded with pride and rainbow flags, and all that other crap. Now, the Olympics can start getting free of it.
All it took was one leader to say “No more.”
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I for one am grateful.