A group of republicans in Capitol Hill called on Tuesday the organizers of the Olympic Games at “the basis of eligibility for female sports competitions on organic sex”, pushing to align the games with An executive order president signed last month aimed at banning transgender women and girls from participating in female sports.
Such a policy would be a departure for the International Olympic Committee, which leaves the eligibility rules for transgender women to the global federations that govern individual sports. The 2028 summer Olympic Games should take place in Los Angeles.
“President Trump said the position of the American people and those around the world, which we must preserve equity, security and equal opportunities for women athletes,” the Republicans wrote in a letter to Thomas Bach, outgoing president of the International Olympic Committee. “In preparation for the 2028 summer Olympic Games, the commitment of the IOC to protect female sports is essential.”
The letter was signed by more than two dozen Republicans in the two chambers, an effort led by Senator James Risch of Idaho, the president of the Foreign Relations Committee, and the representative Burgess Owens of UTAH. He urged Mr. Bach to modify the organization’s rules to “reaffirm the CIO’s commitment to maintain the integrity of women’s Olympic competitions and to ensure that only biological women and girls are authorized to compete in female sports categories.”
The letter signals a continuation of republican efforts to shape the policy concerning transgender participation in sports, a debate that has animated cultural and political discourse in recent years.
The letter, reported earlier by Fox, was sent a few days before the officials met to elect a new chairman of the committee and discuss preparations for the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles. It came from weeks after The Chamber adopted a bill written by the Republicans aimed at placing a federal ban on transgender girls participating in the sports teams of girls in kindergarten schools in the 12th year.
During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, transgender women who had crossed puberty while men were indeed prohibited from swimming,, bike And Way and field events.
When Mr. Trump’s ordinance was signed in February, he ordered Kristi Noem, the secretary of internal security, to target the athletes who, according to him, tried to fraudulently penetrate in the United States while identifying himself as female athletes “by denying their travel visas for the Olympic Games.