Risch, GOP MPs require the Olympic Committee in accordance with Trump’s order to ban trans athletes in women’s sports
EXCLUSIVE: More than two tenths of Senate and Republicans in Senate require the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to match their policies with Executive command of President Donald Trump To protect the possibilities of athletes on the Olympic stage, Fox News Digital learned.
The chairman of the external relations in Senate Jim Risch, R-idaho, and Ambassador Burgess Owens, R-Utah, along with more than two ten Republican MPs, wrote a letter, received by Fox News Digital IOC Thomas Bach on Tuesday.
Their letter comes just a week before the committee should meet to choose its next president and discuss the upcoming summer Olympic Games in 2028, which will be held in Los Angeles.
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris. (Wang Lili/Pool/Getty Images)
“The United States is looking forward to hosted by the Summer Olympic Games 2028 in Los Angeles and the greetings of athletes achieved who worked and sacrificed to reach their sport,” the legislators wrote. “While the International Olympic Committee (MOC) is being prepared for the election of a new leadership, we write to express a critical need for increased protection of athletes’ rights on fair, safe competition.”
“In the United States, we respect our Olympians,” the legislators continued. “These athletes and so many others have inspired generations of young women around the world to compete well.
“In order to do this, the power must base the eligibility for women’s athletic competitions on the biological gender,” they wrote. “Allowing biological males to compete in women’s categories undermine competitive capabilities, security and respect for athletes.”
Trump vows homeland security will prevent transgender athletes to enter the country for 2028.
President Donald Trump has joined female athletes to sign the executive order “Without Men in Women’s Sport” in the Eastern Room in the White House 5 February 2025 in Washington. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
In February, Trump He issued an executive command entitled “Signing of Men from Women’s Sport” and confirmed the position that now “must preserve righteousness, security and equal opportunities for athletes.”
“In the preparation for the 2028 Summer Olympics, IOC dedication to protect women’s sports is the most important thing,” the legislators wrote. “As members of the Congress, we are united with State Secretary Marc Rubio and President Trump in the call to MOO to modify his standards and protect the capabilities of athletes on the Olympic stage.”
The MPs invited MOO to “confirm” their commitment “to the support of the integrity of women’s Olympic competitions and ensures that only biological women and girls allow the competition in women’s sports categories.”
“The Olympic Games should be a model of integrity in sports, and the next MOO president must firmly defend the rights of consecrated athletes,” they wrote. “We are looking forward to your leadership on this critical issue and demand that the next MOO president preserves the basic principles of honest competition.”
GOP SENS. Mike Crapo, Jim Banks, Marsha Blackburn, Steve Daines, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Jim Justice, James Lankford, Tim Sheehy and Tommy Tuberville also signed a letter.
GOP MP Lauren Boebert, Vern Buchanan, Tim Burchett, Cat Cammack, Dan Crenshaw, Brad Finstad, Craig Goldman, Mark Green, Ashley Hinson, Mike Kennedy, Nick Lalota, Blake Moore, Riley Moore, Austin Pfenne
The flag of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was erected during the 2024 Olympic Olympic Games Ceremony. (Christophe Petit Tesson/Pa Pictures via Getty Images)
In 2021, IOC published a revised recommendation of a policy in which individual sports bodies were requested to apply certain parameters with a special emphasis on “stimulating gender equality and involvement” when establishing policies.
For the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, IOC performed his “Framework of Righteousness, Inclusion and Noniscrimination based on gender -identity policy and gender variations.” Framework Included principles such as prevention of damage, non -discrimination, fairness, without the assumption of advantage, accessed evidence, primacy of health and physical autonomy, approach focused on stakeholders, the right to privacy and periodic examinations.
He replaced politics from 2015, which demanded that athletes go from male to female to declare their gender identity as a female, which could not be changed for at least four years, and displaying testosterone levels below 10 nmol/L for “at least 12 months before her first competition”.
The Olympic Rings were displayed at the entrance to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee during the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) in Lausanni, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (Jean-Christophe Botts/Keystone Via AP)
The previous policy replaced the first policy of IOC, the participation of transgender athletes established on the eve of the 2004 Games in Athens, which required athletes to undergo surgery to compete in events in accordance with their gender identity.
IOC did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
In the meantime, Trump vowed that his executive command was banned transgender athletes From competitions for girls and women’s sports, it would also relate to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
In February, during the signature ceremony, the President announced that the secretary of the Homeland Security Christ Noem He would ban any transgender athletes trying to compete as women to enter the country at the 2028 Olympics.
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Trump said he would send Noema “to negate any visa for men who tried to falsely enter the United States while identifying themselves while the athletes were trying to get into the games.”
