White House responds as USOPC expresses support for protecting women’s sports

New York – Exclusive: The leadership of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has indicated that it is looking into the use of genetics Gender test Amid her new commitment to protecting women’s sports from biologically trans athletes, she earned praise from President Donald Trump’s White House.

The White House provided a statement to Fox News Digital in response to the comments he made USOPC officials In a press conference on Tuesday, he praised Trump’s executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports” and announced that the organization was looking into options for genetic sex testing for U.S. teams.

“Keeping men out of women’s sports is critical to ensuring the safety of female athletes and preserving the integrity of these elite events,” White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital. “As President Trump has said repeatedly, this is an issue that 97 percent of the American public supports, and adopting this measure at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles will ensure justice for all of the world’s best athletes.”

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USOPC’s chief medical officer, Dr. Jonathan Venoff, said the SRY gene tests used by World Athletics and World Boxing are “not common” in the United States, but he suggested the USOPC is currently exploring options to use gender testing options for its own teams.

“It’s not very common to do this specific test in the United States, so our goal with this was to help identify laboratories and options for athletes to be able to do this testing. Building on that experience, and knowing that some other international federations are likely to follow suit, figuring out how to make that process seamless…is where we are now,” Venoff said. “But we have a good process.”

Meanwhile, USOPC Chairman Gene Sykes described Trump’s executive order banning males from women’s sports as “in keeping with an international trend.”

“Fortunately, the executive order aimed at protecting women’s sports in the United States is very consistent with the international trend,” Sykes said. “The expectation is that this is where global sport and international sport will go.”

Trump previously said there would be a “very aggressive form of testing” in response to a question about mandatory genetic testing for women’s athletes at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

“I think it will be a very strong match Form of test“There will be a very aggressive form of testing, and if the testing doesn’t come out right, they won’t get into the Olympics,” Trump said.

The USOPC revised its athlete safety policy to propose compliance with Trump’s executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports” in late July.

“USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities…to ensure that women enjoy a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201,” the policy states.

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The new president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, She addressed the topic of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports in her first news conference since taking office in June, and said there was “overwhelming support” from IOC members for protecting the female category.

“We understand that there will be differences depending on the sport, but it was very clear from members that we have to protect the women’s category, first and foremost to ensure fairness,” Coventry said. “But we need to do this through a scientific approach and involving international consortia that have already done a lot of work in this area.”

The new president added that there was “unanimous” support for reaching agreement on how to amend the policy, and suggested that the IOC could take inspiration from the World Athletics policy, which restricts biological males from competing in women’s sports if those males have reached puberty.

“It was very clear from members that the discussion around this needs to be driven by medical and scientific research at its core, so we are looking at the facts and the nuances and including the international federations who have done a lot of this work… sitting at the table and engaging with us because every sport is different,” she said.

A presentation to the World Athletics Committee in Tokyo in September revealed that between 50 and 60 athletes with male biological advantages had reached the final stage in the female category at world and continental championships since 2000.

The committee was chaired by World Athletics Head of Health and Science, Dr. Stefan Bermon, who said Gender tests They were necessary because of the “overrepresentation” of DSD (differences in sexual development) athletes among the finalists, according to multiple reports.

Last October, United Nations She said nearly 900 biological females did not make it to the podium because they were beaten by transgender athletes.

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The results were compiled by Reem Al-Salem, the United Nations rapporteur on violence against women, entitled “Violence against women and girls in sport.”

The report said that more than 600 athletes did not win medals in more than 400 competitions in 29 sports, with a total of more than 890 medals, according to information obtained until March 30.

“The replacement of the women’s athletics category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes missing out on opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” the report said.

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