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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a study of the US master’s swimming after an event in San Antonio saw a biologically male trans -competitor win five female events at the end of April.
Several female competitors told Pakinomist digital after the meeting that they didn’t even know that the translation athlete was a biological man.
Now Paxton’s office is taking action as Texas has a law in place to ban trans athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
“The politics of American Master’s swimming, allowing men to compete in women’s events, are reprehensible and could violate Texas’ consumer protection legislation,” Paxton said in a message. “Not only is this policy abusive to female athletes, but it also demonstrates deep contempt for women and can violate the Texas Act. I will struggle to stop these unreasonable policies and never back from defending the integrity of women’s sports.”
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Trans-swimmer, 47-year-old Ana Caldas, dominated all five races in which the athlete competed in, where he took gold at the women’s age 45-49 in five races, including 50- and 100-yard breast streams, freestyle and 100-yard individual medley.
Louisiana woman and long -term swimmer Wendy Enderle said she filed the request for an eligibility review after finding out that one of the competitors she has been exposed to for years was transgender via a news article dating from last week’s incident.
Now Enderle is grateful to see Paxton’s office intervene.
“I was very encouraged by the announcement that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching an investigation by the US Masters swimming after allowing a transgender swimming to unfairly compete against me and other female swimmers in San Antonio,” Enderle told Pakinomist Digital.
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Women’s swimmer Wendy Enderle swims at USMS Spring Championship 2018 (With permission from Wendy Enderle)
Enderle also hopes that the US Ministry of Justice will also intervene. Mr President Donald Trump have had a executive order in place since February 5, requiring publicly funded institutions to ban trans athletes from women’s and girls sports. However, USMS is not publicly funded.
“I hope the US Masters is swimming quickly adopts a more appropriate and fair policy in accordance with the world’s aquatic policy. I would also like to see that American court lawyer Pam Bondi is investigating whether the US Masters Swimming violates the president’s executive order number 14201, and keep men out of women’s sports, dated 5 February 2025,” added Enderle.
“I am not a legal expert, but it is my opinion that USMS violates this order as they are an athletic association and sports -specific management body as mentioned in the order. Thank you to the big state of Texas for standing up for women and girls!”
In June 2023, Texas Save Women’s Sports Act, which prohibits trans -athletes, adopted to compete in girls and women’s sports and only allow students to compete in the gender category listed on their birth certificate. The law only allows schools to recognize changes made for birth certificates made to correct a spiritual error.
Wendy Enderle swam on the US Masters. (FOX BUSINESS)
More legislation aimed at protecting females from trans -cluttering in sports could soon also be signed in the Texas law.
Earlier this month Texas Senate Voted to adopt the Texas Women’s Privacy Act at a vote of 20-11. The bill ensures that women are safe in their bathrooms, changing rooms, showers and shelters in the home.
Meanwhile, USSMS policy allows trans -fun swimmers the opportunity to participate in the gender competition category, where they identify, and they can also be recognized for results whose certain conditions are met.
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One of the two conditions requires that hormone therapy is properly administered continuously and uninterrupted in a verifiable manner in no less than a year. The second state is proof of testosterone serum levels measured over the last twelve months below five nmol/l (144.25 ng/dl).
Trans swimmers who do not meet these requirements can still participate in the female category, but their times are removed from the results submitted and they are not eligible for official times, places, points, items, top 10 or other forms of official recognition.
Pakinomist Digital has reached USMS on the pending investigation for comment.
