U.s. Olympic Committee To Ban Transgender Women From Women's Sports, Complying With Trump's Order

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The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its policies to opportunity it would comply pinch President Donald Trump's executive bid banning transgender women from competing successful women's sports.

The committee made nan alteration successful an updated "Athlete Safety Policy," posted to their website Monday, which does not mention nan connection transgender successful immoderate of its 27 pages. But nan archive does see connection that implies that transgender women will nary longer beryllium capable to compete successful women's division.s

"The USOPC will proceed to collaborate pinch various stakeholders pinch oversight responsibilities, e.g., IOC, IPC, NGBs, to guarantee that women person a adjacent and safe title situation accordant pinch Executive Order 14201 and nan Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act," nan archive says.

Executive Order 14201 is different known arsenic Trump's “No Men successful Women’s Sports Executive Order."

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