The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its policies to say it would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
The committee made the change in an updated “Athlete Safety Policy,” posted to their website Monday, which does not mention the word transgender in any of its 27 pages. But the document does include language that implies that transgender women will no longer be able to compete in women’s division.s
“The USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities, e.g., IOC, IPC, NGBs, to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201 and the Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act,” the document says.
Executive Order 14201 is otherwise known as Trump’s “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order.”
It’s unclear whether any Olympians would be banned from competition for the 2028 Olympics under the updated policy.
American middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz, who is non-binary, would presumably not be affected by the ruling because they were assigned female at birth. Hiltz finished seventh at the women’s 1,500-meter race in 2024 Paris.
No athlete has won an Olympic medal while competing as an openly transgender woman.
Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender decades after winning gold in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. The first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics was Laurel Hubbard, a New Zealand weightlifter who failed to podium at the Tokyo Games.
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