Fox News has reported USA Gymnastics’ transgender policy pages offline as Riley Gaines-Simone Biles feud rocks the sport
Other Team USA sport governing bodies have made changes or indicated future changes to their transgender policiesRiley Gaines, Kylee Alons and attorney William Bock call for prosecutions to officials letting trans athletes in women’s sportsFormer NCAA swimmers Riley Gaines and Kylee Alons, and their attorney William Bock, told Fox News Digital that they would all support criminal prosecution against officials allowing trans athletes to play in women’s and girls’ sports
.NoW You can now listen to Fox News articles!USA Gymnastics appeared to delete its transgender eligibility policy pages on its website. When the pages were officially taken offline is currently unknown. The organization has come under heavy public scrutiny since Friday after Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles ignited a feud with former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines on social media over the issue of trans athlete inclusion. Previous links to three of the organization’s pages outlining its transgender eligibility policies are currently offline.
Team United States wins gold in the women’s team final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Bercy Arena. (Jack Gruber-USA Today Sports)One link previously led to a November 2020 announcement that the organization no longer required trans athletes to undergo sex reassignment, legal gender recognition, and hormone therapy in order to compete in the gender category of their choosing, as seen in an archive by the Wayback Machine. That page still shows up in search results, but the link now goes to a 404 error page.
Another link previously went to a three-page PDF pamphlet of USA Gymnastics guidelines for transgender and non-binary athletes, as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. That link is now inaccessible, but is still a top result on search engines
. Another link previously went to a nine-page PDF USA Gymnastics pamphlet titled “Transgender Athlete Inclusion Resources: Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes,” as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. That link is also no longer accessible. The official USA Gymnastics website’s governance documents page featured the transgender and non-binary guidelines and resources pages as recently as April, as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. But now those links are absent from the governance documents page. The Wayback Machine is unable to pinpoint exactly when a web page was deleted or changed.
