President Trump reacted to the news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) updated its policies to ensure only biological females compete in women’s sports, and will use genetic testing as enforcement. Trump credited the decision to his own “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order that he signed last year. “Congratulations to the International Olympic Committee on their decision to ban Men from Women’s Sports. This is only happening because of my powerful Executive Order, standing up for Women and Girls!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gave credit to the president for the change earlier on Thursday. “You cannot change your sex. President Trump’s Executive Order protecting women’s sports made this happen!” Leavitt said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMTrump signed the order in February of last year, shortly after taking office. The order gives authority to the secretary of state to use measures to get the IOC to change its policy to protect the women’s category.”The Secretary of State shall use all appropriate and available measures to see that the International Olympic Committee amends the standards governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness, safety, and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction,” the order states. Last July, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) changed its athlete safety policy to enforce Trump’s mandate, directly citing the executive order. Then, when Trump announced the creation of an Olympic task force in August, Trump declared that “testing” would be used to enforce the protection of women’s competition at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.”There will be some very strong form of testing,” Trump said to a question about the use of genetic testing at LA28.In October, at the USOPC Winter Olympics media summit, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jonathan Finnoff said that the SRY gene tests being used by World Athletics and World Boxing are “not common” in the U.S., but suggested the USOPC is currently exploring options to employ sex testing options for its own teams and that he expects other world governing bodies to “follow suit.” “It’s not necessarily very common to get this specific test in the United States and so our goal in that was helping to identify labs and options for the athletes to be able to get that testing, and based on that experience, and knowing that some other international federations likely will be following suit,” Finnoff said.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CELEBRATES PROGRESS AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP ADMIN’S FIGHT TO SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTSNow, the IOC says it will employ the SRY gene test for any competitor in the women’s category in any Olympic event. “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individua
Trump reacts to IOC policy change to ban males from women’s sports as activists celebrate
