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A U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) female competitor, Angie Griffin, told Fox News Digital that a grievance has been filed against her for calling a trans jock "a man" connected a convention organization forum.
USMS has confirmed that a grievance has been revenge by a competitor.
"U.S. Masters Swimming does not remark connected individual personnel matters, including complaints aliases disciplinary processes," nan statement said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "We tin corroborate that a grievance has been revenge by an individual member, not by U.S. Masters Swimming, related to nan USMS Code of Conduct. As pinch each specified matters, it is being handled successful accordance pinch our established reappraisal processes."
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Griffin has been outspoken astir competing successful USMS against a biologic antheral trans jock making love backmost to May 2025, erstwhile she told Fox News Digital she faced a trans competitor astatine a meet successful San Antonio, but didn't moreover find retired nan athlete's commencement activity until aft nan event.
Now, she claims nan grievance could costs her each of her USMS records.
"They tin perchance region each my times, immoderate benignant of nickname I've had and perchance conscionable delete maine from U.S. Masters, for speaking an opinion, and honestly, speaking fact," Griffin told Fox News Digital this week.
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Griffin said she has now hired practice arsenic she attempts to conflict nan grievance.
"I tried to record a mobility to disregard it, giving grounds that I had not been bullying anyone online, that I had conscionable simply posted facts that were disposable for anyone to find," she added.
After USMS updated its gender eligibility policy past June to restrict biologic males from competing successful women's events, nan statement updated its argumentation again this February to comply pinch authorities and section nondiscrimination laws, mostly addressing nan men/open category, which is unfastened to each competitors sloppy of commencement sex.
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A swimmer competes successful nan Women's 200m Breaststroke during nan 15th FINA World Masters Championships astatine Parc Jean-Drapeau connected Aug. 8, 2014, successful Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
"All members who prime nan men’s/open class are eligible for National Recognition Programs successful nan men’s/open category, sloppy of sex, gender, aliases gender identity/expression," nan caller argumentation states.
"All members who prime nan men’s/open class are eligible for Local Recognition Programs successful nan men’s/open category, sloppy of sex, gender, aliases gender identity/expression."
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, pinch an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to nan enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
