22-07-2025
USOPC effectively bars transgender women from women's sports
Amid growing pressure from President Donald Trump and many Olympic sports organizations to ban transgender athletes, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee updated its policies to allow transgender athletes to be barred without using the word 'transgender,' leaving the organization's intentions vague.
In a letter sent Tuesday to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic community, the USOPC's top leaders said that federal law requires them to abide by Trump's 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' executive order from February and that they updated the USOPC's rules to 'reflect this federal guidance.'
