US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 25 Feb 2025 11.31 EST
Last modified on Tue 25 Feb 2025 11.32 EST


The US state department has ordered officials worldwide to deny visas to transgender athletes attempting to come to the US for sports competitions and to issue permanent visa bans against those who are deemed to misrepresent their birth sex on visa applications.

The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the “permanent fraud bar” – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities.

“In cases where applicants are suspected of misrepresenting their purpose of travel or sex, you should consider whether this misrepresentation is material such that it supports an ineligibility finding,” reads the directive from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio. The instructions come after Donald Trump issued an executive order on 5 February barring trans athletes from competing in women’s sports.

While signing the order, the president directed homeland security secretary Kristi Noem to deny visas to “men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes” during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles – which will take place under Trump’s watch. At the signing, Trump also directed Rubio to tell the International Olympic Committee that America “will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes

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Bunch of sick foaming-at-the-mouth zealots.

[Walleye]

1. Was there ever a man with such a small soul?

It looks like trans men are completely getting a pass from this administration. I don’t think GOP know of their existence.

[Eugene]

2. Transgender constituting fraud or deception has now become an official policy.

[tulipsandroses]

3. This helps the price of eggs how? So trans men will not be banned?

Funny how I never hear them panic over trans men the way they panic over trans women.

I am annoyed thinking about all the grandstanding these assholes will do to ruin the Olympics. Next it will be banning athletes doing any kind of protest.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Guess the US will stop playing international sports now.

[stillcool]

5. If all that attention could be redirected to real problems

but then the amount of money being spent blathering on about a phony rage-a-thon, is mere pennies in comparison to the audacious steal-a-thon.

[marble falls]

6. What is this right wing unhealthy interest in other people's genitals.

[hlthe2b]

7. What do you want to bet this gives the Olympic committee all the ammo they need to pull the

2028 Summer Olympics from Los Angeles (and the US in general)... They may pause a little while to see how this all shakes out, but... What a disaster for wildfire-savaged LA if that happens. sigh...