American Olympian, who identifies as transgender nonbinary, slams IOC's new policy to protect women's sports

International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry announces a new policy requiring gene screening to ensure only biological females compete in women's sports, citing fairness. Payton McNabb reacts.

American Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz, who identifies as transgender nonbinary, reacted to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) policy to bar males from women’s competitions on Friday.

The IOC announced its new policy on Thursday. The organization said it will employ genetic testing to verify the biological sex of competitors in women’s events.

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Nikki Hiltz after the women’s 1,500 meter final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Sept. 16, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

"All Olympic athletes competing in women’s sports are now required to undergo genetic sex testing," Hiltz wrote in a post on Instagram Stories. "Attacks on trans people have consistently led to more policing and regulation of ALL women’s bodies. Everyone is hurt by transphobia.

"Y’all already know where I stand on this but this policy is so f---ing stupid and is not solving a problem that exists. I don’t know who needs to hear this but ZERO trans women competed in the Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021 and she did not win a medal. Can we please stop obsessing over trans people? And idk maybe focus our time, energy, and resources into real problems women’s sports face?"

Hiltz, who won a silver medal in the 2024 World Indoor Championships and a gold in the 2019 Pan American Games, competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The IOC said that eligibility for events in the women’s category is "now limited to biological females, determined on the