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Texas’s Attorney General Kane Pasteon announced on Thursday that he was sueing the US Masters Swimming (USMS), a competitive swimming membership organization with over 60,000 adults swimmers.
The lawsuit is a reaction to an incident at San Antonio where an biological male Trans athlete won five female gold medals.
Many women competitors Fox News told Digital After meeting he did not know that the athlete was an organic man.
Announcing the case, Pasteon said in a post on X, “I am swimming to engage in illegal practices by allowing men to compete in women’s competitions.” “The organization has inspired radical workers to pursue gender war, and the lawsuit will hold the USMS accountable for its actions.”
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The USMS’s statement alleges that “by allowing men to compete in women’s events in false, misleading and misleading practices.”
Fox News has reached the USMS for digital comments.
In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women’s Sports Act, which prevents trans athletes from competing in girls and women’s games and only allows students to compete in the gender category listed on their birth certificate. The law only allows schools to identify changes made in birth certificates that were made to fix a clerical error.
Pasteon began an investigation at the USMS after the first April incident.
Trans swimmer, 47-year-old Ana Caldas, dominated all five races, competing by the athlete, taking gold at the age of 45–49 at the age of women, including 50- and 100-yard breaststroke, freestyle and 100-yard individual medals.
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Louisiana woman and long swimmer Wendy Anderley stated that she was transgender through a news article about the April incident, after finding out that she filed a request for a eligibility review.
“I feel betrayal. Plain and simple,” Anderle first told Fox News Digital.
Enderley said that he did not introduce himself to Caldas until the USMS was found in Little Rock, Arkansas in January. On meeting Caldas, Andreel noted the muscles and height of the athlete, but still assumed that Caldas was a woman.
“I knew something was there, but I did not know what, I did not know that she was a trans woman who was till last Wednesday after meeting,” Anderle said. “I was surprised. … It worries me, it makes me crazy.”
Fellow USMS female swimmer Angie Griffin also floated in April without knowledge of the gender of Caldas with Caldas.
The shock of learning news about Caldas inspired Griffin to write a formal letter of complaint to USMs. The letter also asked the organization to “revaluate” the Spring National Championship recently and overhall its gender eligibility policy.
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Griffin competed against Caldas in three races at San Antonio and ended behind the Transte athlete in 50-yard breaststroke and 100-yard individual medley.
“I could not stop thinking how the integrity of personal competition was compromised. Why does the USMS not follow competitive standards similar to the rest of the world and NCAA? Why are athletes called to accept low transparency and fairness?” Griffin had earlier told Fox News Digital
“I paid my entry fee, airfare and hotel, believing that I am competing in a female division defined by biological sex. I was worth knowing the truth before stepping on the blocks.”
The US Masters Swimming Board of Directors and Rules Committee updated its participation guidelines last month.
“The USMS allows members to register for the competition category that aligns their gender identity and/or expression and to participate in accepted events in that category,” new guidelines state.
“However, swimmers will not be included in recognition programs (as defined above) unless they are not swimming in the competition category that align with their sex at birth or they meet eligible requirements.”
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To be eligible for women’s recognition programs of US Masters swimming, policy states, “Members of women sex are eligible for recognition programs in women’s category, whether their gender identity or gender expression.
“Members of 46 XY DSDs whose gender identity or gender expression is female, deserve for recognition programs in the women’s category, if they can establish for a comfortable satisfaction of USMS that their sex is woman at birth.”
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