The US has banned biological men from competing in women’s sports at the Olympics.

The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) changed its eligibility rules on Monday to exclude transgender women from women’s events, to comply with an executive order signed by Donald Trump.

Governing bodies of American sports federations will now have to follow suit, The New York Times reported.

The USOPC said on Tuesday it had “an obligation to comply with federal expectations” and that it had engaged in a “series of respectful and constructive conversations with federal officials” following Mr Trump’s executive order.

USA Fencing has now adopted a new policy, which comes into effect on Aug 1, that states trans women and non-binary athletes will only be allowed to compete in the men’s category.

In February, Mr Trump announced his administration would strip federal funding from programmes that required women to compete against biological men in sports, depriving them of “fair athletic opportunities”.