US Olympic & Paralympic Committee bans trans athletes
The National Women’s Law Center, which fights for gender justice through legal and policy work, also ripped the new policy.
“By giving into the political demands, the USOPC is sacrificing the needs and safety of its own athletes,” Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, said in a written statement. “The vagueness of the committee’s policy will leave athletes unprotected from humiliating sex-testing practices. Athletes will now be subject to intrusive questioning and demands for traumatizing physical exams as they prove they are women enough to play. The USOPC should devote its energy to the real and serious disparities harming women athletes: fewer chances to participate across all sports compared to boys and men; worse facilities, coaching, and equipment placing girls and women at greater risk of injury; and endemic sex harassment and assault perpetrated against women athletes.”
