Trump wins: US Olympic Committee bans men from women's sports



The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced monumental changes ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Inside its Athlete Safety Policy guidance, the USOPC quietly declared it would adhere to one of President Donald Trump's earliest executive orders from February.

In fact, while the guidance was issued in June, according to the New York Post, the committee updated its eligibility rules on Monday to add one of the most consequential changes in American sports history.

'It's hard to applaud an organization for merely following the law.'

In the added text, the committee said it is "committed to protecting opportunities for athletes participating in sport."

The policy continued, saying the "USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities ... to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201."

While the new policy is not blatantly clear, the executive order that it purports to align with most certainly is.

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Statement on USOPC Compliance with Federal Executive Order on Women’s Sports

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has directed all national governing bodies to comply with federal law and an executive order requiring that women’s sports categories be reserved for… pic.twitter.com/LjQQJHGjWs
— ICONS (@icons_women) July 22, 2025

Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, has been used for months to justify the protection of women's sports and spaces by barring males from participating in "all-female athletic opportunities" or entering "all-female locker rooms."

Schools have continued to defy natural law, but the executive order has laid the ground work to allow the Department of Education to open investigations and apply punishments to offending institutions.

Since news of the USOPC rule change broke, women's sports activists and organizations have reacted positively to the news but have remained cautious in the amount of praise they give.

"It's hard to applaud an organization for merely following the law, but nonetheless, this is a win," NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines wrote on X.

The Independent Council on Women's Sports added, "We thank the Trump administration and the USOPC for taking this important step to preserve fairness and integrity in women's sports."

Speaking to Blaze News, former gymnast and national women's champion Jennifer Sey said there are still steps that need to be taken to ensure fairness at the upcoming Olympics.

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The U.S. Olympic Committee has announced it will comply with President Trump's Executive Order banning men from competing in women's sports.

It’s hard to applaud an organization for merely following the law, but nonetheless, this is a win.https://t.co/5gXR3CzZv4
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 22, 2025

"The USOPC has essentially agreed to comply with federal law. It seems unnecessary to applaud an organization for that, but here we are," Sey told Blaze News.

Sey noted that while she was "thrilled" that the Trump administration made the organization do the right thing, the policy lacks specific details.

"The next step must be to confirm they will test for sex to ensure compliance."

The former athlete said that a lot of people have been asking her what the new rules mean for the Olympics as a whole: "This is different than an outright Olympic ban in that it is only for the U.S., U.S. Olympic teams and competitors in the U.S. Olympic movement."

Sey continued, "Next, we need the [International Olympic Committee] to establish the same rules to ensure that women's sports in the Olympic Games are protected and for women only."

Hope is high for the IOC though, as newly appointed president Kirsty Coventry said in late June that she intends to "protect the female category, first and foremost."

Coventry added, "But we need to do that with a scientific approach and with the inclusion of the international federations who have already done a lot of work in this area."

For now, those who have worked hard to ensure fairness in women's sports seem dissatisfied with the vague wording the aforementioned organizations have used. Real change cannot come soon enough, with hundreds of women having already lost competitions to men, with more happening all the time.

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Man dominates women's college rugby tournament, then is removed from records despite being named tournament All-Star



A male athlete was named to an All-Tournament Team at a women's rugby event and then was erased from tournament records.

Gregory Wilt, who goes by "Camille," played in the 2025 Collegiate Rugby All-Stars Tournament in Atlanta for the Upstate NY All Stars. Wilt was named to the regional team due to his presumed outstanding play with Syracuse University.

Upstate NY didn't play very well, however, going 1-3 in pool play before defeating the Great Waters All-Stars in a consolation match to finish seventh in the 10-team tournament.

Wilt didn't score in the first game but went on to score twice in each of the last four games. That was plenty to get him named to the All-Tournament Team. The graphic that included the name of the All-Tournament Team members appeared to have been wiped from the rugby organization's social media pages; however, the image still exists on its homepage and here.

That wasn't the only place that National Collegiate Rugby saw fit to remove Wilt from. Not only was the athlete removed from a list of searchable players that participated in the tournament, he was also removed from the Upstate NY roster.

Despite playing as No. 13 for Upstate NY, as reflected in video and scoresheets, Wilt is nowhere to be found on the team's list of players.

The searchable database of tournament participants indeed lists Wilt's teammates but not Wilt.

Despite the deletion of records, the Independent Council on Women’s Sports spotted the previous posts and remarked on X that the Upstate NY team "denied a female athlete the opportunity to make the All-Star selection squad."

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'Women ... were forced to compete at an unfair disadvantage.'

In the 19-12 loss against Rugby Northeast, No. 13 Wilt still scored twice; one of those scores was caught on camera. The video showed Wilt clumsily running laterally across the field but was still fast enough to easily outrun all the women chasing him.

Despite showcasing a real lack of athleticism for his size, Wilt still possessed an obvious speed advantage over his opponents.

"Women from universities across the country were forced to compete at an unfair disadvantage and face increased safety risks during the tournament in Atlanta, GA," ICONs wrote on Instagram.

Despite no real roster list existing on the University of Syracuse women's rugby team site, where Wilt plays, there is a page on the collegiate rugby website for Wilt under Syracuse. There is no data on the page, however, besides a name.

On the Syracuse women's website, Wilt is seen on the homepage in the upper left corner of a team photo.

While scoresheets for Syracuse's 2024-2025 season do not appear on the website either, the team certainly dominated competition throughout the year, likely due to Wilt's play given he was named to the regional All-Star Team.

According to Syracuse's schedule, the not-so women's team scored a whopping 341 points in six games, giving up just 36. That's an average score of 57-6.

However, they were more dominant than that. The team only gave up more than seven points once, skewing their average, but that was still a 55-17 win at Buffalo. Syracuse also beat Binghamton University 55-0 and Cornell an amazing 99-7.

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Female cyclist retires because of male competitors: Women 'no longer have a fair chance'
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Female cyclist retires because of male competitors: Women 'no longer have a fair chance'



Hannah Arensman — a professional female cyclist from Brevard, North Carolina, who just turned 25 years old — has retired from the competitive circuit because male participants now dominate the sport, reports confirmed on Wednesday.

At her last race, the 2022 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships held back in December, Arensman finished in fourth place and was kept off of the winner's podium by Austin Killips. As might be guessed by his name, Austin Killips is a man who finished in third place, ahead of Arensman and dozens of other female cyclists, and who opted not to participate in the "non-binary" competition the day before.

"It has become increasingly discouraging to train as hard as I do only to have to lose to a man with the unfair advantage of an androgenized body that intrinsically gives him an obvious advantage over me, no matter how hard I train," Arensman said in a statement.

With his third-place finish, Killips didn't just keep Arensman from a bronze medal in the national championship. He may also have kept Arensman from a spot on the U.S. team at the 2023 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, held last month in the Netherlands.

In her statement, Arensman expressed sadness and frustration that she has spent most of her life in sports, only to be outdone by men. She also expressed concern about young female riders who now have little hope of competing at a high level because of male infiltrators.

"I feel for young girls learning to compete and who are growing up in a day when they no longer have a fair chance at being the new record holders and champions in cycling because men want to compete in our division," she said.

In addition to the men in women's sports, Arensman's statement took aim at the leaders of professional and national athletics organizations who have not fought to preserve competitive categories for women only.

"I have felt deeply angered, disappointed, overlooked, and humiliated that the rule makers of women’s sports do not feel it is necessary to protect women’s sports to ensure fair competition for women anymore," Arensman said.

Arensman's retirement statement appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court brief, filed on March 13, regarding the Save Women's Sports law in West Virginia. "By affirming West Virginia’s right to stand with women and girls, this Court can ensure that females’ basic right to be treated equally is still the legal norm in the United States," stated the amici curiae brief, officially supported by 67 female athletes, coaches, sports officials, and parents of female athletes.

The Independent Council on Women's Sports — an organization with the goal of "elevating and empowering female athletes" and "protecting [the] safety, fairness and opportunity for girls and women" — likewise shared Arensman's retirement statement on social media.

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— ICONS Women (@icons_women) March 15, 2023

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Women protest transgender athlete inclusion at NCAA convention, threaten to sue if changes aren't made



Women including former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines protested the inclusion of male-to-female transgender athletes in sports outside the NCAA convention, handing over a petition and threatening legal action, according to Yahoo News.

Gaines, who famously spoke out against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, took to the forefront of the group of a reported two dozen demonstrators.

“Today, we intend to personally tell the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes by handing them a petition that we have garnered nearly 10,000 signatures on in just a couple of days,” said Gaines.

Other guests included Marshi Smith, former NCAA athlete and co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports. Smith outlined demands from the council, which were sent in a letter to the NCAA's legal team.

The letter reads:

"To avoid legal action, the NCAA must comply with civil rights law immediately by:

  • Repealing all policies and rules that allow male athletes to take roster spots on women’s teams and/or compete in women’s events;
  • Establishing and enforcing rules to keep women’s sports female;
  • Requiring colleges to provide single-sex locker rooms for female athletes."
Another speaker was a high school student who claimed that she was suspended when she spoke out against a male student changing in the girls' locker room, with the school even stopping all the females from using the changing room after complaints.
\u201cFemale athlete Blake Allen protested a male being allowed to undress in her girls locker room and when she protested, the school stopped all of the girls from using the locker room. She\u2019s fighting back as an @ADFLegal client.\u201d
— Jonathan Saenz (@Jonathan Saenz) 1673538823

The NCAA held a session on the topic during the convention, speaking in detail on the subject.

Ivy League executive director Robin Harris said the NCAA wants to "have an environment that is fair, welcoming and inclusive for all of (the athletes),” adding that the eligibility requirements for transgender athletes are the same as for other athletes.

NCAA director of inclusion Jean Merrill stated that transgender athletes are indeed "playing by the rules.”

The session also saw a former transgender athlete give commentary; Schuyler Bailar is a swimmer who switched from female swimming to male swimming at Harvard.

"The more we learn about bodies and biology and people and the more we understand diversity and equity and inclusion,” Bailar remarked.

Bailar also supported a policy that would see the NCAA not holding competitions in states that ban transgender athletes in women's sports, adding, "If you’re asking me do I want more support for trans people? The answer is going to be absolutely yes."

The NCAA officials accepted the petition from Riley Gaines outside the convention.

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\u201cBREAKING:\nCompelling moment in #USA\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8#sports. \nAthletes @icons_women @KimJonesICONS @SmithMarshi @Hogshead3Au and others, lead by @Riley_Gaines_ , present #NCAA officials with petition & letter warning of legal action.\n\ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffcThe @NCAA is not above the law!\n#SaveWomensSports \n#Texas\u201d
— Linda Blade (@Linda Blade) 1673545076


\u201cToday, @Riley_Gaines_ and other amazing women spoke on behalf of collegiate women athletes across the country who want to keep men out of women\u2019s sports. The @NCAA should take notice, women and concerned citizens will not stay silent on this issue. #SaveWomensSports @txvalues\u201d
— Nino Gonzalez (@Nino Gonzalez) 1673552282


\u201cThis is Blake Allen. As a mere sophomore in high school, Blake spoke up about a male who came into the girls\u2019 locker room to stare at the girls. \nSHE was suspended from school! Her dad Lost His Job! They were later overturned - but it is why we need our #SexBasedRights\u201d
— Nancy Hogshead-Makar, JD, Oly (@Nancy Hogshead-Makar, JD, Oly) 1673561448