COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has successfully barred transgender ladies from competing in ladies’s sports activities, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and different sports activities it has an “obligation to conform” with an govt order issued by President Donald Trump.
The change, introduced Monday with a quiet change on the USOPC’s web site and confirmed in a letter despatched to nationwide governing our bodies, follows an identical step taken by the NCAA earlier this 12 months.
The USOPC change is famous obliquely as a element beneath “USOPC Athlete Security Coverage” and reference’s Trump’s govt order, “Maintaining Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities,” signed in February. That order, amongst different issues, threatens to “rescind all funds” from organizations that enable transgender athlete participation in ladies’s sports activities.
The nationwide governing our bodies will doubtless comply with the USOPC’s directive.
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