The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) will formally prohibit men from competing in women’s sports amid the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back transgender policies throughout the United States. USOPC said in an email to Olympic groups and stakeholders on Tuesday that leaders had “engaged in a series of respectful and constructive conversations” with federal leaders after President Donald Trump’s February executive order that moved to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports.”
All Olympic national governing bodies will be required to update their rules in line with the new guidance, the national committee said. The Trump administration has taken an aggressive approach to rolling back years’ worth of transgender policies throughout the country. In May, for instance, the White House launched an inquiry into hospitals that have provided transgender drugs and performed transgender surgeries on minors.
The U.S. bishops earlier this year praised Trump’s efforts to keep men out of women’s sports. In January, the USCCB submitted a letter urging the Senate to pass the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act”; the following month, it issued a statement praising the executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports”. Catholic leadership in recent years has grown increasingly critical of transgender ideology, with Pope Francis in 2023 describing transgenderism as “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations” of the present day.
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