USA Gymnastics assessing transgender policy after deleting rules on letting males in women's category

USA Gymnastics (USAG) could beryllium the adjacent large American sports governing assemblage to alteration its policies connected allowing trans athletes to vie with women. 

The enactment provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing wherefore its website pages for its transgender eligibility policies and resources were deleted. 

"In May, USAG removed its argumentation to measure compliance with the existent ineligible landscape," the connection said.

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President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Feb. 5 to prohibition trans athletes from women's sports, and USA Fencing has already faced national scrutiny implicit its rules that fto males vie with females.

USAG's erstwhile policies were highly permissive to biologic males who wished to vie successful the women's category. 

One of the deleted webpages was a November 2020 announcement stating that the enactment would nary longer necessitate trans athletes to acquisition enactment reassignment, ineligible sex designation and hormone therapy successful bid to vie successful the sex class of their choosing. 

The enactment besides antecedently had resources and guidelines for trans athletes connected its website, but those pages person besides been deleted.

USAG was thrust into the spotlight this past play aft Olympic fable Simone Biles garnered wide backlash for attacking erstwhile NCAA swimmer and blimpish influencer Riley Gaines. Biles called Gaines "truly sick" and suggested Gaines is the size of a antheral aft Gaines pointed retired that a Minnesota precocious school whose softball squad won a authorities title Friday with a transgender pitcher, and that Minnesota's precocious schoolhouse league disabled comments connected an X station of the announcement. 

Biles has since issued a nationalist apology for her comments against Gaines. 

Generally, the American nationalist has go much universally opposed to allowing trans athletes to vie successful women's sports implicit the past year.

A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, bash not deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 radical who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women. 

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Other large Team USA sports governing bodies person softly amended their transgender policies amid rising absorption to trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports. 

USA Track and Field (USATF) official transgender eligibility policy present references the World Athletics guidelines connected its authoritative webpage. USATF antecedently referenced the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s policy, arsenic seen successful an archive via Wayback Machine. 

The IOC allows biologic males to vie successful the women's category, portion World Athletics bans immoderate jock who has undergone antheral puberty from competing arsenic a woman.

USA Fencing announced successful April that it is preparing to alteration its gender-eligibility policy, aft a viral protestation by women's fencer Stephanie Turner sparked wide backlash and national involution by protesting a trans opponent. 

The enactment said it is preparing to amend its existent policies that let biologic males to vie with women and girls successful the lawsuit that it is "forced" to alteration them. 

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From near to right, Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey and Sunisa Lee of Team United States observe winning the golden medal aft the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final connected time 4 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine the Bercy Arena connected July 30, 2024 successful Paris. ( Tom Weller/VOIGT/GettyImages)

"In the lawsuit that USA Fencing is forced to alteration its existent stance successful accordance with oversight bodies oregon national legislation, the caller argumentation states athletes competing successful USA Fencing-sanctioned tournaments indispensable vie according to their biologic sex," the announcement read. 

The projected updated argumentation ensures that the women's class "will beryllium unfastened exclusively to athletes of the pistillate sex." The men's class "will beryllium unfastened to each different athletes who are different eligible for competition."

Now, USA Gymnastics is getting successful connected the question of changes, arsenic Team USA arsenic a full could person a precise antithetic acceptable of rules successful clip for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics compared to years past. 

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