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President Donald Trump celebrated the NCAA's announcement of a new policy Thursday that prevents transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports aft helium signed an enforcement bid to code the contented a time earlier.
Trump proclaimed himself "the president to prevention women's sports" successful a celebratory Truth Social post. He besides suggested the International Olympic Committee (IOC) volition beryllium the adjacent large sports instauration to travel his order.
"Due to my Executive Order, which I proudly signed yesterday, the NCAA has officially changed their argumentation of allowing men successful Women’s Sports – IT IS NOW BANNED! This is simply a large time for women and girls crossed our Country," Trump wrote.
"Men should person NEVER been allowed to vie against women successful the archetypal place, but I americium arrogant to beryllium the President to SAVE Women’s Sports. We expect the Olympics Committee to besides usage Common Sense, and instrumentality this policy, which is precise fashionable among the American People, and the full World!"
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The NCAA's erstwhile policy, which had been successful spot successful 2010, allowed biologic males to vie successful women's sports aft undergoing astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth of testosterone suppression treatment. The caller argumentation states, "A student-athlete assigned antheral astatine commencement whitethorn not vie connected a women’s team."
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Prior to Trump signing the bid Wednesday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said portion of the information down Trump's enforcement bid would beryllium to make a "pressure campaign" for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and NCAA to travel and forestall transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports.
During Trump's ceremonial astatine the White House to motion the enforcement order, helium announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem volition prohibit immoderate transgender athletes attempting to vie arsenic women from entering the state for the Olympics successful 2028.
Trump said helium volition instruct Noem "to contradict immoderate and each visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently participate the United States portion identifying themselves arsenic women athletes effort and get into the Games."
There was contention surrounding sex eligibility astatine the Paris Olympics successful July and August.
Boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won golden medals successful women's boxing. Both athletes had antecedently been disqualified from planetary competitions for failing sex eligibility tests. However, the IOC and existent President Thomas Bach voiced enactment for some athletes. The IOC besides insisted that some athletes were biologically female.
Before that, Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, competed successful weightlifting for the New Zealand team, and Canadian shot subordinate Quinn came retired arsenic nonbinary and transgender successful 2020.
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With Bach preparing to permission bureau aboriginal this year, the IOC's adjacent president could assistance transportation retired Trump's imaginativeness connected the contented much cooperatively.
Former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe is simply a campaigner to beryllium the adjacent IOC president and has suggested helium volition instrumentality enactment to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's events.
Coe is the caput of World Athletics, the governing assemblage for planetary way and tract competition. In 2023, the governing assemblage tightened its regulations connected transgender athletes to exclude transgender women who person gone done antheral puberty from competing successful the pistillate category. That regularisation besides lowered the maximum testosterone level for eligible pistillate competitors.
Coe said if helium becomes IOC president, the caller Olympic argumentation connected transgender inclusion volition "probably" bespeak the 1 helium has established successful World Athletics. Coe has besides said the contention surrounding Khelif and Yu-ting made him consciousness "uncomfortable."
The United Nations released survey findings saying astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of winning medals due to the fact that they mislaid to transgender athletes.
The study, "Violence against women and girls successful sports," said much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.
"The replacement of the pistillate sports class with a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding fig of pistillate athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," the study said.
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