‘Pressure Campaign’: White House Says Men Shouldn’t Compete With Women At LA Olympics

President Donald Trump expects his Executive Order banning men from women’s sports to be the starting point of a “very public pressure campaign” to make sure the practice is over before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

“He does expect the Olympic Committee and the NCAA to no longer allow men to compete in women’s sports,” Leavitt told The Daily Wire during Wednesday’s briefing. “I think the President with the signing of his pen starts a very public pressure campaign on these organizations to do the right thing for women and for girls across the country.”

Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday banning trans-identifying males from women’s sports in schools and colleges. This follows similar orders affirming that there are only two genders, and pulling federal funding from so-called gender transition procedures for minors.

“This is an incredibly popular position,” Leavitt said of Wednesday’s order. “There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to speak out against some very powerful institutions in this country. They deserve to have a voice and a say. The President is bringing their voice to the highest level at the White House this afternoon, and he expects these organizations to comply with this federal executive order that he’ll be signing today.”

Galvanized by Trump’s push to protect women’s sports and spaces, congressional Republicans have redoubled their efforts to do the same. Hours before Trump signed his order Wednesday, Senator Tommy Tuberville (AL) introduced a bill that would bar biological males from competing against women in the Olympics.

“Men should not be competing in women’s sports at any level,” Tuberville told The Daily Wire, which first reported the bill. “We were all deeply disturbed last summer to see videos of men boxing against women in the Olympics. This is not only dangerous but it is incredibly unfair to the young women who have trained their whole lives to compete.”

In October 2024, The Daily Wire reported that female athletes lost nearly 900 medals to biological males who identified as “transgender” women.

One athlete, former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, emerged as an early and fierce advocate for women’s sports. Gaines is expected to join the president Wednesday as he signs his executive order. Hours before the signing, she addressed the Republican Study Committee and urged them to keep up the fight against women’s sports.

“Men do not belong in women’s sports. You know that, I know that, and the American people certainly confirmed they know that,” Gaines told The Daily Wire ahead of the signing.