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Texas prosecutor General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday that he was continuing the swimming of American masters (USM), an organization of membership in competitive swimming with more than 60,000 adult swimmers.
The trial is an answer to an event in San Antonio where a biological athlete of Trans males won five female gold medals.
Several female competitors told PK Press Club Digital After the meeting, they did not know that the athlete was a biological man.
“I am continuing the masters who swim to us to engage in illegal practices by allowing men to participate in female competitions,” said Paxton in an article on X announcing the trial. “The organization has curled up radical activists pushing the gender war, and this trial will hold the USM responsible for its actions.”
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Paxton’s declaration alleges that the USMS has embarked on “false, misleading and misleading practices by allowing men to participate in the events of women”.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the USMS to comment.
In June 2023, Texas adopted the Save Women’s Sports Act, which prohibits trans athletes from participating in sports of girls and women and only enabled students to participate in the gender category indicated on their birth certificates. The law only allows schools to recognize the modifications made to birth certificates that have been made to correct an office error.
Paxton previously launched a USMS survey after the Conrtoversial incident in April.
The trans swimmer, Ana Caldas, 47, dominated the five races in which the athlete contributed, taking gold in the female category of 45 to 49 years in five races, including the breaststroke of 50 and 100 yards, freestyle and individual mixture of 100 yards.
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The woman of Louisiana and longtime swimmer Wendy Enderle said that she had applied for a revision of eligibility after discovering that Caldas was transgender through a press article on the April incident.
“I feel betrayed. Plain and simple,” Enderle said in PK Press Club Digital.
Enderle said that she had not presented herself in Caldas to a USMS meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January. By meeting Caldas, Enderle noticed that the muscles and the size of the athlete, but always assumed that Caldas was a woman.
“I knew there was something, but I didn’t know what, I didn’t know she was a trans woman until Wednesday after the game,” said Enderle. “I was shocked. … It makes me worry, it drives me crazy.”
The swimmer of USMS women, Angie Griffin, also swam with Caldas in April without knowing the birth sex of Caldas.
The shock of learning the news on the Caldas prompted Griffin to write an official letter from the USMS. The letter also asked the organization to “reassess” the recent national spring championship and revise its eligibility policy between the sexes.
Griffin competed against Caldas in three races in San Antonio and finished behind the Trans athlete in the breaststroke of 50 yards and 100 individual yards.
“I could not stop thinking about how the integrity of individual competition had been compromised. Why not the USMS follow the same competitive standards as the rest of the world and the NCAA? Why are athletes invited to accept less transparency and equity?” Griffin has already told PK Press Club Digital
“I paid for my entrance fees, my plane ticket and my hotel, trusting the competition in a female division defined by biological sex. I deserved to know the truth before getting on the blocks.”
The United States Administration Committee Masters Swimming and rules updated its participation directives last month.
“The USMS allows members to register for the competition category that aligns with their identity and / or their gender expression and to participate in events sanctioned in this category,” indicate the new directives.
“However, swimmers will not be included in the recognition programs (as defined above) unless they swim in the competition category that aligns with their sex attributed to birth or that they meet the conditions of eligibility.”
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To be eligible for the recognition programs for women in the swimming of the American masters, politics declares: “Female sex members are eligible for recognition programs in the category of women, whatever their gender identity or their gender expression.
“The members of 46 XY DSD whose gender identity or gender expression are women are eligible for recognition programs in the category of women if they can establish to the comfortable satisfaction of the USMS that their gender attributed to birth is a woman.”
