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USA Gymnastics (USAG) could beryllium nan adjacent awesome American sports governing assemblage to alteration its policies connected allowing trans athletes to compete pinch women.
The statement provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing why its website pages for its transgender eligibility policies and resources were deleted.
"In May, USAG removed its argumentation to measure compliance pinch nan existent ineligible landscape," nan connection said.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive bid connected Feb. 5 to prohibition trans athletes from women's sports, and USA Fencing has already faced national scrutiny complete its rules that fto males compete pinch females.
USAG's erstwhile policies were highly permissive to biologic males who wished to compete successful nan women's category.
One of nan deleted webpages was a November 2020 announcement stating that nan statement would nary longer require trans athletes to acquisition activity reassignment, ineligible gender nickname and hormone therapy successful bid to compete successful nan gender class of their choosing.
The statement besides antecedently had resources and guidelines for trans athletes connected its website, but those pages person besides been deleted.
USAG was thrust into nan 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 nan size of a antheral aft Gaines pointed retired that a Minnesota precocious school whose softball squad won a authorities title Friday pinch a transgender pitcher, and that Minnesota's precocious schoolhouse convention abnormal comments connected an X station of nan announcement.
Biles has since issued a nationalist apology for her comments against Gaines.
Generally, nan American nationalist has go much universally opposed to allowing trans athletes to compete successful women's sports complete nan past year.
A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered nan immense mostly of Americans, including a mostly of Democrats, do not deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to compete successful women's sports.
Of nan 2,128 group who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to participate successful women's sports. Of nan 1,025 group who identified arsenic Democrats aliases leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to compete pinch women.
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Other awesome Team USA sports governing bodies person softly amended their transgender policies amid rising guidance to trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports.
USA Track and Field (USATF) official transgender eligibility policy now references nan World Athletics guidelines connected its charismatic webpage. USATF antecedently referenced nan International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s policy, arsenic seen successful an archive via Wayback Machine.
The IOC allows biologic males to compete successful nan women's category, while 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 statement said it is preparing to amend its existent policies that let biologic males to compete pinch women and girls successful nan arena 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 nan golden badge aft nan Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team Final connected time 4 of nan Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine nan Bercy Arena connected July 30, 2024 successful Paris. ( Tom Weller/VOIGT/GettyImages)
"In nan arena that USA Fencing is forced to alteration its existent stance successful accordance pinch oversight bodies aliases national legislation, nan caller argumentation states athletes competing successful USA Fencing-sanctioned tournaments must compete according to their biologic sex," nan announcement read.
The projected updated argumentation ensures that nan women's class "will beryllium unfastened exclusively to athletes of nan female 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 nan activity of changes, arsenic Team USA arsenic a full could person a very different group of rules successful clip for nan 2028 Los Angeles Olympics compared to years past.
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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 nan 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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