USOPC leaders address protection of women's sports, use of sex tests amid global resistance to trans athletes

US Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland and Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Finnoff answered questions on the protection of women's sports at thr USOPC Media Summit.

NEW YORK – U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) leadership addressed the topic of mandatory sex testing to protect women's sports from biological male trans athletes during a press conference at its media summit on Tuesday. 

USOPC President Sarah Hirshland declined to answer whether she personally would support mandatory genetic testing to protect the women's categories when asked by Fox News Digital, after President Donald Trump suggested at an August press conference there would be a "very strong form" of sex testing to keep biological males out of women's competitions at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. 

Hirshland said she would support whatever decisions world governing bodies and individual U.S. governing bodies make for their respective sports. 

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"We're here to be supportive and helpful," Hirshland said. "But at the end of the day, defining eligibility for competitions has to happen at the individual sport level, whether that's globally or nationally." 

However, in July, the USOPC updated its athlete safety policy to indicate compliance with Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, and U.S. governing bodies in turn changed their trans athlete participation policy to comply with the USOPC's new guidance. 

No single U.S. governing body currently uses sex testing to protect the women's category. World Athletics and World Boxing are the two biggest world governing bodies to use sex testing. 

USOPC Board Chair Gene Sykes said, with regard to regular sex testing