US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated its policy, saying that trans-identifying male athletes in other countries will no longer be allowed to travel to the U.S. to compete in women's sports.
Foreign biological men will no longer be able to claim they are women with extraordinary athletic ability to obtain visas that would allow them to play women’s sports in America. This new policy was implemented to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order to protect women by barring men from competing in women’s sports.
Penny Nance is president and CEO of Concerned Women for America.
"We're very grateful for President Trump taking a stand on behalf of women," says Nance. “It's very simple to do this testing. It's impossible to obfuscate your actual genetics.”
She said all these athletes are already tested for things before competitions, such as doping.
“It's just a matter of adding more to their blood test to make sure that they are actually women,” Nance states.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has also said men will not compete against women here in the U.S.
Along with expressing her team’s gratefulness to President Trump, she also shared some numbers.
“Concerned Women for America recently did some research and discovered that about 2,000 women have been denied gold medals. Now, that's not silver, that's not bronze, just gold medals," Nance reports.
Nance added that women also lost about half a million dollars in prize money. She explained that there was over 10,000 events.
“So, there is a real cost to the fact that we have allowed men to infiltrate women's sports, take away their trophies, take away their records, take away their medals, and it needs to end,” concludes Nance.
