Anonymous
7/25/2025, 8:57:51 PM No.40497753
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/team-usa-olympics-trans-ban-may-violate
>Transgender women and girls have been barred from Team USA following a sweeping ban issued by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC).
>In a statement shared with Erin in the Morning, the Committee cited President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The USOPC echoed troubling and pseudoscientific talking points, justifying the anti-trans capitulation as a move to secure “fair and safe competition environments for women.” But we know from experience this concern isn’t really about keeping any women “safe”; it's about whipping up an anti-trans maelstrom, and people of all gender minorities will feel the backlash.
>The USOPC claims that “as a federally chartered organization, [they] have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.”
>“Accordingly, we have updated our athlete safety policy to reflect this federal guidance,” their statement reads. However, experts told Erin in the Morning that it’s not so clean-cut.
>“I think one of the key challenges with what the USOPC has put out is the incredible vagueness,” said Brian Dittmeier, the National Women’s Law Center director of LGBTQI+ equality. “The policy change that was enacted simply said that they will comply with both the transphobic executive order and other authorities, including the Ted Stevens Act, and where there are tensions between the two, USOPC did not provide any clarity or direction. That's incredibly concerning, because to an extent, it gives Donald Trump the ability to rewrite USOPC's rules for them.”
>Transgender women and girls have been barred from Team USA following a sweeping ban issued by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC).
>In a statement shared with Erin in the Morning, the Committee cited President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” The USOPC echoed troubling and pseudoscientific talking points, justifying the anti-trans capitulation as a move to secure “fair and safe competition environments for women.” But we know from experience this concern isn’t really about keeping any women “safe”; it's about whipping up an anti-trans maelstrom, and people of all gender minorities will feel the backlash.
>The USOPC claims that “as a federally chartered organization, [they] have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.”
>“Accordingly, we have updated our athlete safety policy to reflect this federal guidance,” their statement reads. However, experts told Erin in the Morning that it’s not so clean-cut.
>“I think one of the key challenges with what the USOPC has put out is the incredible vagueness,” said Brian Dittmeier, the National Women’s Law Center director of LGBTQI+ equality. “The policy change that was enacted simply said that they will comply with both the transphobic executive order and other authorities, including the Ted Stevens Act, and where there are tensions between the two, USOPC did not provide any clarity or direction. That's incredibly concerning, because to an extent, it gives Donald Trump the ability to rewrite USOPC's rules for them.”
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