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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday that he is suing us Masters Swimming (USMS), a competitive swimming membership organization with over 60,000 adult swimmers.
The trial is a response to an event in San Antonio, where a biologically male trans athlete won five women’s gold medals.
More female competitors told Pakinomist Digital After the meeting, they did not know that the athlete was a biological man.
“I am suing Masters who swim for participating in illegal practice by giving men the opportunity to compete in women’s competitions,” Paxton said in a post about X, announcing the trial. “The organization has turned to radical activists pushing genital wars and this trial will keep USMS responsible for its actions.”
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Paxton’s statement claims that USMs deal with “false, misleading and misleading practice by giving men the opportunity to compete in women’s events.”
Pakinomist Digital has reached USMS for comment.
In June 2023, the 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.
Paxton previously launched a study of USMS after the Conrtoversial April event.
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.
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Louisiana woman and long -term swimmer Wendy Enderle said she filed a request for an eligibility review after finding out that Caldas was transgender through a news article on the incident in April.
“I feel betrayed. Plain and simple,” Enderle told Pakinomist Digital.
Enderle said she did not present herself to Caldas until a USMS meets in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January. After meeting Caldas noticed the ending athlete’s muscles and height, but still assumed Caldas was a woman.
“I knew there was something, but I didn’t know what, I had no idea she was a trans woman until this last Wednesday after the meeting,” Enderle said. “I was shocked. … It makes me worried, it makes me mad.”
Fellow USMS Women’s swimmer Angie Griffin also swam with Caldas in April without knowledge of Caldas’ birth gender.
The shock by learning the news of Caldas made Griffin write a formal letter of complaint to USMS. The letter also asked the organization to “re -evaluate” the recent Spring National Championship and revise its sexual policy.
Griffin competed against Caldas for three races in San Antonio and ended behind the trans athlete in the 50-yard breast stream and 100-yard individual medley.
“I couldn’t stop thinking about how the integrity of individual competition had been compromised. Why don’t USMS follow the same competitive standards as the rest of the world and NCAA? Why are athletes asked to accept less transparency and justice?” Griffin told earlier Pakinomist Digital
“I paid my entrance fees, airline ticket and the hotel, trusting that I would compete in a women’s division defined by biological sex. I deserved to know the truth before I stepped on blocks.”
The US Masters Swimming Board of Director and Rules Committee updated its guidelines for participation last month.
“USMS allows members to register in the competition category that is in line with their gender identity and/or expression and to participate in sanctioned events in this category,” the new guidelines say.
“However, swimmers will not be included in recognition programs (as defined above) unless they swim in the competition category that complies with their gender assigned at birth or they meet the requirements for eligibility.”
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In order to be eligible for the US Masters Swimmings Woman’s Recognition Programs, the policy says, “Members of the female gender are eligible for recognition programs in the women’s category, regardless of their gender identity or gender expression.
“Members with 46 XY DSD, whose gender identity or gender expressions are female, are eligible for recognition programs in the women’s category, if they can establish to USMS’s pleasant satisfaction, as their gender assigned at birth is female.”
