{"id":81747,"date":"2026-03-26T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81747"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:29:56","slug":"transgender-women-athletes-banned-from-olympics-by-new-ioc-policy-on-female-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/transgender-women-athletes-banned-from-olympics-by-new-ioc-policy-on-female-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Women Athletes Banned From Olympics By New IOC Policy On Female Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">executive order<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on women\u2019s sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females,\u201d the International Olympic Committee said, \u201cdetermined on the basis of a one\u2011time SRY gene screening.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774517396\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Transgender Women Athletes Banned From Olympics By New IOC Policy On Female Eligibility\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}