Trump Administration Enforces Transgender Athlete Ban for 2028 Olympics

President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to ban transgender women from competing in women's sports at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games by implementing stringent testing and immigration policies. Following his February executive order titled "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports," the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its Athlete Safety Policy to exclude transgender women from women's events and mandated national governing bodies to comply under threat of losing government funding. Concurrently, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revised visa guidelines to bar transgender women athletes from receiving "extraordinary ability" visas, effectively preventing male-born athletes from competing in female categories in the U.S. Trump emphasized that these measures are necessary to ensure fairness, safety, and respect in women's sports, describing transgender participation as a biological advantage that undermines competition. USCIS officials have framed the policy changes as closing a loophole exploited by foreign male athletes who change gender identity to gain competitive advantage. These coordinated actions reflect the Trump administration's broader agenda to restrict transgender participation in sports, eliciting both support from some institutions and controversy nationwide.