IOC Bans ‘Transgenders’ From Olympics

Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in women’s events at the Olympic Games under a new eligibility policy adopted by the International Olympic Committee, a major shift ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics that tracks with President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports.

“Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females,” the IOC said, adding that athletes will be subject to a mandatory gene test once in their career.

The policy, the IOC said, is meant to “protects fairness, safety and integrity in the female category,” and will apply beginning with the LA Games in July 2028. The IOC said it is “not retroactive and does not apply to any grassroots or recreational sports programs,” while also noting the Olympic Charter’s language that access to sport is a human right.

The move comes as Olympic officials sought a single, clear standard instead of leaving each sport’s governing body to write its own rules. IOC President Kirsty Coventry, a two-time Olympic swimming champion, framed the decision as a matter of competitive equity.

“At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat,” Coventry said in a statement. “So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category.”

The IOC acknowledged it’s unclear how many transgender women are competing at an Olympic level. No woman who transitioned after being born male competed at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, though New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard competed at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 without winning a medal.

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The policy document also tightens restrictions around some athletes with differences in sex development, including cases similar to two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya’s long-running dispute with track and field officials over eligibility rules tied to naturally high testosterone.

The IOC said the gene screening would look for “the SRY gene, a segment of DNA typically found on the Y chromosome that initiates male sex development in utero and indicates the presence of testes/testicles,” calling it “the most accurate and least intrusive method currently available.”

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In the U.S., Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” has pushed the issue to the forefront ahead of the LA Games, with the White House signaling it expects compliance as the Olympic clock ticks down.

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