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Usa Gymnastics is under the national microscope after its biggest star, Simone Biles, lit a massive reaction to attack Riley Gaines on the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports. Since then, Biles apologized for his comments against Gaines, but the impact of public perception towards her and the organization is being accompanied.
The former female gymnast of the US team
Worley, former US gymnastics athlete and a member of the Board, revealed in an exclusive interview with Pak Gazette Digital his thoughts about the state of leadership for the body of ruling gymnastics of the nation, since the United States will be the host of the next Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
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The Gymnasts of the US team. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Images)
“I think there has been a constant decrease in its ability to have the ability of the spine and its leaders to have a spine for some time,” Worley said about the organization and its recent silent distancing from trans inclusion policies. “When you have no principles that you are willing to dye in the wool and have ten fingers of your feet, then you will blow with each wind.”
Worley, who competed for the US National Team. As Senior in 1993, he established an NCAA record with the perfect 10 in five consecutive meetings. He later says he served as a member of the US Gymnastics Board.
Now, Worley is a defender of women’s sports rights and member of the Independent Council on the Women’s Sports Network (icons).
And it was so far to say that the organization is exhibiting “cowardice”, with its past posture and currently an unclear position on the subject now.
“I don’t like cowardice in any case. If that means they have trans information first or knocked it up when he is heated in the kitchen. I do not admire cowardice and I think he knows that his position is in him, but he is ready for the fight if he is standing in a problem that will be detailed of women in his sport that has done his sport what he is,” said Worley.
The links prior to three of the pages of the organization describing their transgender eligibility policies are currently offline. When the pages were officially disconnected, it is currently unknown.
A link previously led to a November 2020 announcement that the organization no longer required that Trans athletes undergo sex, legal gender recognition and hormonal therapy to compete in the gender category of its choice, as seen in a file by the backback machine. That page is still in the search results, but the link now goes to an error page 404.
Another link previously went to a three -page PDF brochure of the US gymnastics guidelines for transgender and non -binary athletes, as seen in a Wayback machine file. That link is now inaccessible, but it is still a main result in search engines.
Another link was previously for a PDF Gymnastics PDF brochure of nine -page PDF entitled “Transgender athlete inclusion resources: Transgender and non -binary athletes”, as seen in a Wayback machine file. That link is not accessible either.
Worley predicts that the organization will announce an official amendment to its policy, but not one that goes far enough as you would like.
“I predict that they will amend the language by leaving many lagoons and flexibility so that they are nebulous enough to change their minds if the time comes,” said Worley.
“I think they are driven by pressure an externally driven approach instead of being driven by the principles. Therefore, it cannot depend on any organization that is not defended or has real values in which they refused to bend.”
Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with USA Gymnastics to comment.
Simone Biles does not realize what he admits about trans women in their publications, says Riley Gaines
Simone Biles married the security of the Chicago Bears Jonathan Owens in April 2023. (Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
For Worley, the recent position of the organization by allowing biological men to compete in the category of women represents a political change to the left for the organization in recent years. She believes that she started after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
“When he was part of the USA Gymnastics, he was really rigid … Usa Gymnastics really tried to be the US team.
“So that is my memory and has gone to the left now. In my opinion, Use Gymnastics has been absolutely planted by incredibly defective leadership for many, many years and has also folded the knee to the alarm clock. Which is unfortunate because it has nothing to do with gymnastics.”
Worley recalls a change of the organization that disagreates the protection of athletes after the public treatment of Gabby Douglas in the 2008 summer games.
“I realized that and that was the turning point for me, I noticed some kind of fall in terms of protection of athletes,” said Worley.
Another important team of US sport organizations. UU. They have modified their transgender policies in the middle of the growing opposition to trans inclusion in women and girls sports.
US Track and Field Official Transgender Eligibility Policy He now refers to world athletics guidelines on his official website.
Usatf previously referred to the policy of the International Olympic Committee (COI), as seen in a file through Wayback Machine.
The IOC allows biological men to compete in the category of women, while world athletics prohibits any athlete who has suffered a male puberty of competing as a woman.
USA Fencing announced in April that he is preparing to change his gender eligibility policy, after a viral protest by women’s fencing. Stephanie Turner caused a massive reaction and federal intervention by protesting a trans opponent.
The organization said it is preparing to amend Its current policies that allow biological men to compete with women and girls in case it is “forced” to change it.
“In the event that the Fencing of the United States is forced to change its current position in accordance with the supervision organisms or federal legislation, the new policy establishes that the athletes that compete in the tournaments sanctioned by near the US. UU. They must compete according to their biological sex,” reads the announcement.
The updated proposal policy ensures that the category of women “is open exclusively to female athletes.” The male category “will be open to all other athletes that are otherwise eligible for competition.”
Worley hopes that the next generation of gymnasts can help contribute to substantial change in your body of government.
“If any female gymnasts are in a position where there is a male competitor who claims to be a woman and wants to compete against women, I would tell them that ‘they go back,” said Worley.
“One does not compete if he chooses not to participate, there is no one to compete against them. Two really exert pressure on the governing body who is supposed to have their backs. It is supposed to be supporting their progression in the sport. Do not let them get out of their own with the Moba of the Awakening and do what they think should be doing the optics for a very small percentage of the population in the sacrifice and commitment of their career. “.” “.” “.” “.” ”
