{"id":39097,"date":"2025-04-17T22:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/us-olympic-committee-sidesteps-transgender-athlete-policy-amid-la28-buildup\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:55:29","slug":"us-olympic-committee-sidesteps-transgender-athlete-policy-amid-la28-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/us-olympic-committee-sidesteps-transgender-athlete-policy-amid-la28-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"US Olympic committee sidesteps transgender athlete policy amid LA28 buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>USOPC won\u2019t set transgender eligibility rules for LA28<\/li>\n<li>LA28 passes $1bn in sponsorship, confirms key venues<\/li>\n<li>USA Football certified ahead of flag football\u2019s debut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has said it will not set any policy on transgender athlete eligibility ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games, despite growing political pressure from the Trump administration and increasing scrutiny over access and inclusion in women\u2019s sport.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Thursday after the committee\u2019s first board meeting of 2025, chief executive Sarah Hirshland said the USOPC had no plans to define eligibility criteria, even as US president Donald Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14201 \u2013 titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/02\/11\/2025-02513\/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports\">Keeping Men Out of Women\u2019s Sports<\/a> \u2013 threatens to upend international participation protocols.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/17\/usopc-transgender-athlete-policy-new-white-house-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USOPC won\u2019t set transgender eligibility rules for LA28 LA28 passes $1bn in sponsorship, confirms key venues USA Football certified ahead of flag football\u2019s debut The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has said it will not set any policy on transgender athlete eligibility ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games, despite growing political pressure &#8230; <a title=\"US Olympic committee sidesteps transgender athlete policy amid LA28 buildup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/us-olympic-committee-sidesteps-transgender-athlete-policy-amid-la28-buildup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Olympic committee sidesteps transgender athlete policy amid LA28 buildup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}