White House responds to IOC policy change to ban males from women's sports as activists celebrate

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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) updated its policies to ensure only biological females compete in women's sports, and will use genetic testing as enforcement.

Leavitt credited Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order for the change. 

"You cannot change your sex. President Trump's Executive Order protecting women's sports made this happen!" Leavitt said. 

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Trump signed the order in February of last year, shortly after taking office. The order gives authority to the secretary of state to use measures to get the IOC to change its policy to protect the women's category.

"The Secretary of State shall use all appropriate and available measures to see that the International Olympic Committee amends the standards governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness, safety, and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction," the order states. 

Last July, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) changed its athlete safety policy to enforce Trump's mandate, directly citing the executive order. 

Then, when Trump announced the creation of an Olympic task force in August, Trump declared that "testing" would be used to enforce the protection of women's competition at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

"There will be some very strong form of testing," Trump