IOC Banned Men From Women’s Olympics and CNN Immediately Lied About What Happened

Karoline Leavitt went on X Thursday and called out every major network in four words.

The IOC just ended biological males competing against women at the Olympics – and the fake news machine immediately lied about what happened.

Here is exactly what they said, and why every word of it was deliberate.

IOC Bans Biological Males From Women's Events at 2028 Olympics

The IOC announced Thursday that women's Olympic events are now limited to biological females, determined by a one-time SRY gene screening.

The policy takes effect at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

IOC President Kirsty Coventry put it plainly: "The scientific evidence is very clear: male chromosomes give performance advantage in sports that rely on strength, power, or endurance."

She added that in some sports, allowing biological males to compete against women would simply not be safe.

Leavitt didn't waste a second. "You cannot change your sex," she posted on X. "President Trump's Executive Order protecting women's sports made this happen!"

Trump followed on Truth Social: "Congratulations to the International Olympic Committee on their decision to ban Men from Women's Sports. This is only happening because of my powerful Executive Order, standing up for Women and Girls!"

He is right.

Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order in February 2025, and within months the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its guidance to comply.

The IOC followed.

How ESPN CNN AP and NBC Lied About the Transgender Olympics Ban

Now here is where it gets infuriating.

The AP wrote: "Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy."

ESPN wrote: "Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy."

NBC wrote: "Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy."

CNN wrote: "Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility."

Every one of those headlines is a lie.

Not a mistake. Not a misunderstanding. A deliberate lie – designed to manufacture a victim class out of biological men who wanted to cheat against women.

Here is what the IOC actually said: any athlete who screens positive for the SRY gene can still compete in the Olympics – in the men's category, a mixed category, or any open event.

Nothing stops a biological male from competing at LA28.

He just has to compete as a man.

The IOC did not ban transgender people from the Olympics.

The IOC banned men from competing against women.

Every editor at CNN, ESPN, and the AP knows the difference.

They wrote it the other way because their goal is not to inform you – it is to make you feel like the people protecting women's sports are the villains.

Riley Gaines – who tied Lia Thomas in a race the NCAA handed to Thomas on a technicality – said it plainly: "'Trans women' haven't been banned from women's sports. Men have."

That is the sentence the AP could not bring itself to write.

Jennifer Sey, CEO of XX-XY Athletes, went directly at CNN: "No one is banned. Stop lying. Men can compete in men's."

They didn't stop.

ABC, CBS, and NBC – Olympic broadcast partner NBC included – ran zero seconds on the IOC announcement during their evening newscasts.

The only network that touched it was PBS – and PBS framed the story around a New Zealand weightlifter who competed at Tokyo in 2021 and didn't medal, deliberately omitting the case that actually forced this policy.

Imane Khelif – the boxer who put an Italian woman on the floor in 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics – admitted to having the SRY gene and to receiving hormone treatments to lower testosterone before competition.

That is what triggered the IOC's two-year review.

The media buried it so they could write a cleaner victim story.

Why Trump's Executive Order Made the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Possible

The IOC's SRY gene test looks for the sex-determining region of the Y chromosome – the same test World Athletics and World Boxing adopted before the IOC acted.

The science behind the policy is blunt: male biology provides a performance edge of 10 to 12 percent in running and swimming events, more than 20 percent in throwing and jumping, and over 100 percent in explosive power events including combat sports.

That is not a marginal advantage.

That is the difference between a gold medal and going home empty-handed.

For decades, every time the Olympics handed a women's medal to a biological male, there was a real woman somewhere who trained her entire life and lost that slot because governing bodies were too cowardly to say the obvious thing.

The IOC finally said the obvious thing.

Trump's executive order – which directed the Secretary of State to use all available measures to push the IOC toward protecting the female category – gave the IOC the political cover to act.

Karoline Leavitt named the result out loud.

And the corporate media's response was to lie about what happened and manufacture another round of outrage on behalf of men who wanted to compete against women.

They are not covering the news.

They are protecting an ideology that cost real women real medals – and they still won't admit they were wrong.

Sources:

• John Nolte, "Media Spread Hoax that Trans Women Can't Compete in Olympics When They Can — as Men," Breitbart, March 26, 2026.
• "IOC Bans Biological Males from Women's Olympic Events, Will Use Gene Testing," Fox News, March 26, 2026.
• "Olympics Set New Trans Policy Ahead of Summer Games," The Daily Wire, March 26, 2026.
• Jackson Thompson, "Trump Reacts to IOC Policy Change to Ban Males from Women's Sports," Fox News Digital, March 26, 2026.
• "Left-Wing Media Outlets Share Absurd, Blatantly False Posts About Trans Athletes Being 'Banned' From Olympics," OutKick, March 26, 2026.
• "PBS Report on Olympic 'Trans Women' Ban Hides a Big Part of the Story," NewsBusters, March 27, 2026.
• "Olympic Committee Adopts New Policy on 'Trans' Athletes," Blaze Media, March 26, 2026.