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USA Gymnastics appeared to delete its transgender eligibility policy pages connected its website. When the pages were officially taken offline is presently unknown.
The enactment has travel nether dense nationalist scrutiny since Friday aft Olympic golden medalist Simone Biles ignited a feud with erstwhile NCAA swimmer and blimpish activistic Riley Gaines connected societal media implicit the contented of trans jock inclusion.
Previous links to 3 of the organization's pages outlining its transgender eligibility policies are presently offline.
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Team United States wins golden successful the women’s squad last astatine the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Bercy Arena. (Jack Gruber-USA Today Sports)
One nexus antecedently led to a November 2020 announcement that the enactment nary longer required trans athletes to acquisition enactment reassignment, ineligible sex recognition, and hormone therapy successful bid to vie successful the sex class of their choosing, arsenic seen successful an archive by the Wayback Machine. That leafage inactive shows up successful hunt results, but the nexus present goes to a 404 mistake page.
Another nexus antecedently went to a three-page PDF pamphlet of USA Gymnastics guidelines for transgender and non-binary athletes, arsenic seen successful a Wayback Machine archive. That nexus is present inaccessible, but is inactive a apical effect connected hunt engines.
Another nexus antecedently went to a nine-page PDF USA Gymnastics pamphlet titled "Transgender Athlete Inclusion Resources: Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes," arsenic seen successful a Wayback Machine archive. That nexus is besides nary longer accessible.
The authoritative USA Gymnastics website's governance documents leafage featured the transgender and non-binary guidelines and resources pages arsenic precocious arsenic April, arsenic seen successful a Wayback Machine archive. But present those links are absent from the governance documents page.
The Wayback Machine is incapable to pinpoint precisely erstwhile a web leafage was deleted oregon changed.
Fox News Digital has reached retired USA Gymnastics for comment.
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The feud betwixt Biles and Gaines has go 1 of the astir viral topics connected societal media successful the past 3 days, dominating the apical trending conception connected X, portion prompting heated debates and arguable media sum of the issue.
Gaines said successful a societal media video connected Saturday that aggregate Team USA athletes person reached retired to her to accidental she agrees with her stance against allowing males successful women's sports.
The feud started erstwhile Biles took contented with Gaines calling retired a Minnesota precocious school whose softball squad won a authorities title Friday with a transgender pitcher.
Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to assistance Champlin Park High School triumph a authorities title.
Gaines, the big of OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast, noted that comments connected X were turned disconnected connected the Minnesota State High School League’s station with a photograph of the squad connected societal media.
"To beryllium expected erstwhile your prima subordinate is simply a boy," Gaines wrote.
Biles responded, calling Gaines "truly sick" for her remark and saying Gaines should beryllium "uplifting" transgender athletes. Biles sent a 2nd station connected X telling Gaines to "bully idiosyncratic your ain size, which would ironically beryllium a male."
Biles has been the taxable of wide disapproval by conservatives and women's sports rights activists alike.
President Donald Trump's lad Donald Trump Jr. adjacent joined successful connected the disapproval with a brace of posts connected X.
Other large Team USA athletics 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 it.
"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."
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Trump signed an enforcement bid successful February to prohibition trans athletes from women's and girls' sports, arsenic the bulk of Americans proved to reason biologic males being allowed to vie and stock locker rooms with females.
A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't 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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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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