Texas Attorney General Sues Us Masters Swimming After Controversial Trans Athlete Controversy In San Antonio

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday he is suing U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS), a competitory swimming rank statement pinch complete 60,000 big swimmers. 

The suit is simply a consequence to an arena successful San Antonio wherever a biologic antheral trans jock won 5 women's golden medals. 

Multiple female competitors told Fox News Digital aft nan meet they did not cognize nan jock was a biologic male. 

"I'm suing U.S. Masters Swimming for engaging successful forbidden practices by allowing men to compete successful women's competitions," Paxton said successful a station connected X announcing nan lawsuit. "The statement has cowered to extremist activists pushing gender warfare, and this suit will clasp USMS accountable for its actions."

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Paxton's connection alleges USMS engaged successful "false, deceptive, and misleading practices by allowing men to compete successful women's events."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to USMS for comment.

In June 2023, Texas passed nan Save Women's Sports Act, which bans trans athletes from competing successful girls and women's sports and only allows students to compete successful nan gender class listed connected their commencement certificates. The rule only allows schools to admit changes made to commencement certificates that were made to correct a clerical error.

Paxton antecedently launched an investigation into USMS aft nan conrtoversial April incident.

The trans swimmer, 47-year-old Ana Caldas, dominated each 5 races nan jock competed in, taking golden successful nan women's property 45-49 class successful 5 races, including nan 50- and 100-yard breaststroke, freestyle and nan 100-yard individual medley.

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Louisiana female and long-time swimmer Wendy Enderle said she revenge a petition for an eligibility reappraisal aft uncovering retired that Caldas was transgender done a news article astir nan April incident.

"I consciousness betrayed. Plain and simple," Enderle antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

Enderle said she did not present herself to Caldas until a USMS meet successful Little Rock, Arkansas, successful January. Upon gathering Caldas, Enderle noticed nan athlete's muscles and tallness but still assumed Caldas was a female. 

"I knew location was something, but I didn't cognize what, I had nary thought she was a trans female up until this past Wednesday aft nan meet," Enderle said. "I was shocked. … It makes maine concerned, it makes maine mad." 

Fellow USMS women's swimmer Angie Griffin besides swam pinch Caldas successful April without knowledge of Caldas' commencement gender.

The daze of learning nan news astir Caldas prompted Griffin to constitute a general missive of title to USMS. The missive besides asked nan statement to "re-evaluate" nan caller Spring National Championship and overhaul its gender eligibility policy. 

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Griffin competed against Caldas successful 3 races successful San Antonio and vanished down nan trans jock successful nan 50-yard breaststroke and 100-yard individual medley.

"I couldn't extremity reasoning astir really nan integrity of individual title had been compromised. Why doesn't USMS travel nan aforesaid competitory standards arsenic nan remainder of nan world and NCAA? Why are athletes asked to judge little transparency and fairness?" Griffin antecedently told Fox News Digital 

"I paid my introduction fees, airfare and hotel, trusting I'd beryllium competing successful a women's section defined by biologic sex. I deserved to cognize nan truth earlier stepping onto nan blocks."

The U.S. Masters Swimming Board of Directors and Rules Committee updated its information guidelines past month.

"USMS allows members to registry for nan title class that aligns pinch their gender personality and/or look and to participate successful sanctioned events successful that category," nan caller guidelines state. 

"However, swimmers will not beryllium included successful Recognition Programs (as defined above) unless they are swimming successful nan title class that aligns pinch their activity assigned astatine commencement aliases they meet nan eligibility requirements."

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To beryllium eligible for nan U.S. Masters Swimming’s women’s nickname programs, nan argumentation states, "Members of nan Female Sex are eligible for Recognition Programs successful nan women's category, sloppy of their gender personality aliases gender expression.

"Members pinch 46 XY DSD whose gender personality aliases gender look is female are eligible for Recognition Programs successful nan women's class if they tin found to USMS's comfortable restitution that their activity assigned astatine commencement is female."

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