The United States has published the Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to update the “athlete safety policy”. The new version is to align with an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump earlier this year.
Update effectively prevents transgender women from competing in women’s game in the Olympics.
Why has UsopC updated its policy?
In the 27-page document with the update “athlete security policy”, the UsopC has not mentioned the word “transgender”.
However, in a new sub -section called “additional requirements”, it suggests that “USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders, to ensure that” women have a fair and safe competition environment, which is the executive order 14201. ,
On Tuesday, USOPC President Jean Cyx and Chief Executive Officer Sarah Hirsheland sent a letter to the US Olympic community, interpreting the policy change.
“As a federally chartered organization, we have an obligation to follow federal expectations,” they reported by American media outlets as written as ESPN And this Washington Post,
“Our revised policy emphasizes the importance of ensuring fair and safe competition environment for women.”
The letter states that national governing bodies will have to “update their applicable policies in alignment”.
The change of UsopC is uniform in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) earlier this year. A day after Trump’s executive order, NCAA changed its policy. It now limits athletes assigned to women at birth to contestants in women’s games.
What is Trump’s executive order?
In February this year, Trump signed the Executive Order 14201, titled “keeping men out of women’s game.” This order means that if schools or institutes allow transgender athletes to compete in teams that do not match the sex assigned at birth, they can face the return of federal penalty.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio was tasked to achieve the International Olympic Committee to change the “Olympic Games fair, safety, and the best interests of women athletes using” all approved and available measures “.
The Executive Order is similar to other measures initiated by the Trump administration. Earlier this year, he banned transgender people from serving the US Army.
Women’s incidents reacted to real ban on transgender athletes
Executive order critics argue that there are very few evidence of transgender athletes dominating women’s game on a large scale. Opponents warned the thesis order will not create a proper solution in the game and is likely to deepen political polarization instead.
Young transgender athletes believe in mental health, they should be excluded from the game. It comes with concerns that women with abnormalities of chromosomes can be targeted by unscientific “genetic tests”, and it puts athletes as athletes not applied to their male counterparts.
The organization’s president and CEO, Fatima Gauss Graves said in a statement, “The National Women’s Law Center is renounced by giving the move in political demands, renounced the needs and safety of its own athletes. ,
In many states across the United States, laws prevent transgender women and girls from participating in some competitions. Critics have blocked some of these policies after challenging policies as discriminatory and cruel.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Chairman, Kirsty Covantry, has first tried to “protect women category”. Trump has said that he wants the IOC to change everything “What to do with this absolutely ridicule topic.”
So far, IOC allows individual sports associations to determine their rules in the Olympics. In swimming, cycling, and tracks and fields, strict rules on transgender athletes have already been passed, with athletes that were banned from women’s events through male puberty.
The next Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games are to become a hero in Los Angeles in 2028.
Edited by: Elizabeth Shumacker
