<p>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held a press conference Tuesday demanding U.S. Masters Swimming rescind its policy allowing biological males to swim in female events or face legal action.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, we called on U.S. Masters Swimming, a Florida-based nonprofit, to immediately cease allowing any men to compete against women,&#8221; Uthmeier said in a statement to The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will always fight to protect women and girls from being subjected to men trying to compete in female sports — it&#8217;s our moral obligation to do so,&#8221; the attorney general said.</p>
<p>https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1945184936308199847</p>
<p>U.S. Masters must &#8220;quickly certify in writing&#8221; that they will ensure no men participate with women, Uthmeier said.</p>
<p>&#8220;If they don&#8217;t do so then we will pursue additional legal action,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The amateur sports organization for adult swimmers is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, and has 60,000 members.</p>
<p>U.S. Masters Swimming recently updated its policy after the attorney general of Texas <a href="https://swimswam.com/texas-attorney-general-announces-investigation-into-u-s-masters-swimming/">launched</a> an investigation when a trans-identifying male swimmer blew his female competitors away at this year&#8217;s Spring Nationals in San Antonio.</p>
<p>The 47-year-old man who identifies as a woman, Ana Caldas, won five women&#8217;s events, sparking angry calls for U.S. Masters Swimming to change its rules.</p>
<p>The organization&#8217;s <a href="https://www.usms.org/volunteer-central/policy-and-governance/usms-policies/transgender-swimmer-inclusion">old policy</a> allowed trans-identifying males to compete on the women&#8217;s team as long as they had been on estrogen for a year and had testosterone below a certain level. Males who did not meet these requirements were also allowed to swim in the women&#8217;s races, but their performance did not count in the competition.</p>
<p>However, on July 1, U.S. Masters Swimming enacted a new &#8220;interim eligibility <a href="https://www.usms.org/volunteer-central/policy-and-governance/usms-policies/interim-eligibility-policy">policy</a>,&#8221; which bars trans-identifying males from competing in the women&#8217;s category, but they may still swim in the women&#8217;s races.</p>
<p>Uthmeier says the new policy &#8220;purports to protect women&#8217;s sports, but it does not get the job done.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not acceptable. It does not fly with Florida law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will use every tool at our disposal from our civil rights laws to our anti-discrimination laws to our consumer protection laws to ensure that we are protecting women and girls.&#8221;</p>
<p>Besides fairness in competition, another issue is safety in the locker rooms, the attorney general said.</p>
<p>&#8220;As these ladies can tell you later, the other aspect here is the safety issues of having men in women&#8217;s locker rooms,&#8221; Uthmeier said. &#8220;We will not tolerate it. We will hold you accountable if you are going to endanger our women and girls.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not right. It still seems insane to me that we&#8217;re having this conversation in this country, but we will always fight for what&#8217;s right in Florida. We&#8217;re the state where woke goes to die,&#8221; the attorney general said. &#8220;I believe this is a moral cause, and more importantly what&#8217;s happening is unlawful under state law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Several athletic organizations have backed down and changed their policies after President Donald Trump, surrounded by smiling young girls wearing sports uniforms, signed an order banning trans-identifying males from girls&#8217; sports.</p>
<p>One of those was the NCAA, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ncaa-backs-down-changes-transgender-athlete-policy-after-trump-order">changed</a> its policy to ban trans-identifying males on women&#8217;s teams less than 24 hours after Trump&#8217;s order.</p>
<p>The NCAA attracted controversy for its swimming competitions when trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas defeated the University of Kentucky&#8217;s Riley Gaines, who has become an advocate for women&#8217;s sports.</p>
<p>U.S. Masters Swimming has several events coming up in Florida, including the 2025 Rob Curry Pancake Pentathlon in September in the Orlando area.</p>

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