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President Donald Trump said there will be a “very strong form of testing” in response to a question of mandatory genetic testing for women’s sports at the Los Angeles Olympics 2028. Trump’s response came to a Tuesday the White House event in which he signed an executive order to establish the establishment of a LA28 -Task Force.
“I think there will be a very strong form of testing,” Trump said. “There will be a very, very strong form of testing, and if the test does not come out properly, then they will not be in the Olympics.”
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President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order for the Los Angeles Olympic Games 2028, in South Court Auditorium in Eisenhower Executive Office building at the White House -Campus, Tuesday, August 5, 2025, in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance and Casey Wasserman, President of LA28. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USAPC) recently changed its athletic security policy to suggest compliance with Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order.
“The USOPC will continue to cooperate with various stakeholders with supervisory responsibility … to ensure that women have a fair and secure competition environment that complies with executing order 14201,” the policy reads.
Trump said on Tuesday that he believes the U.SOPC would have changed his previous politics that allowed biological men to compete in women’s competitions, even though he had not returned to the office and signed the executive order.
“I think they would probably have,” Trump said.
Trump was also asked if he believes the current policy will remain in place after leaving the office.
“There’s an option. It can go both ways if you really want to know the truth,” Trump said. “I feel strongly about it. I have.
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US President Donald Trump has an executive order for the creation of a White House 2028 Olympic Task Force after signing it in the South Court auditorium in the White House in Washington, DC, August 5, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Many women’s sports rights activists have aggressively called for the implementation of mandatory sex tests in Olympic and NCAA woman’s competition since Trump’s executive order was signed.
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (Icons), the Talergruppen, which represents several women’s activist athletes, released a statement on July 22, calling for mandatory sex screening for all women’s athletes in USOPC-sanctioned events after the political change was published.
“The next critical step is that the USAPC should implement sex screening protocols. This will ensure that women are guaranteed equal, fair and secure opportunities in athletic competition. Icons will not rest before any girl, at all levels, in every sport has access to fair competition and privacy in changing rooms,” the statement states.
“The United States has a chance to be a leader in standing up for the fair treatment of women all over the world.”
Women’s Fence Stephanie Turner, who brought attention to the USAPC policies as she knelt in protest against a trans opponent in recordings that became viral in April, also called for the test.
“Enforcement of this policy will be important,” Turner said. Turner pointed to karyotyping, a test that examines the chromosomes in a sample of cells, as a necessary form of testing.
“You can’t trust documentation anymore. You can’t trust driver’s license (s), you can’t trust birth certificates because these all can be edited.”
Former American woman’s gymnast Dee Worley also told Pakinomist Digital that she believes testing should be mandatory to protect female competitors.
Worley said she doesn’t think any momentum will be achieved on the question until mandatory sex screenings are implemented.
