The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is falling in line with an executive order from President Donald Trump banning transgender women from women’s sports. 

The committee quietly updated its eligibility rules Monday, adding a paragraph to its 27-page “Athlete Safety Policy” posted to its website that includes language that implies it bars transgender women from competing in women’s divisions. 

Trump signed the “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” executive order — also known as Executive Order 14201 — in February. 

“The USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities, e.g., IOC, IPC, NGBs, to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201 and the Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act,” the added language in the document stated. 

It’s not clearly stated how the policy will be enforced, and it is unclear whether any American Olympians will be banned from the upcoming 2028 Summer Olympics taking place in Los Angeles. 

A USOPC spokesperson told the New York Times that the committee had been having “a series of respectful and constructive conversations with federal officials” following the president’s executive order. 

The committee said it would work with national governing bodies to implement the new policy.

“As a federally chartered organization, we have an obligation to comply with federal expectations,” the USOPC statement read. 

No openly transgender woman has won an Olympic medal. 

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s former policy based its rulings on “real data and science-based evidence rather than ideology,” and that it would be “making science-based decisions, sport by sport and discipline by discipline, within both the Olympic and Paralympic movements.”

The International Olympic Committee has struggled to address the issue of transgender athletes in sports. 

USA Fencing updated its policy last week in response to criticism that it had been facing for allowing biological males to compete in the women’s category. 

Part of the requirements to compete in a domestic women’s competition include the language, “Athletes who are of the female sex, provided all other entry criteria have been met.”