US Masters Swimming competitor says her grievance for trans athlete feedback has been resolved

U.S. Masters Swimming competitor Angie Griffin says she has been cleared of an unsportsmanlike-conduct grievance that left her questioning for eight months whether or not she can be expelled from the group, merely for talking out in opposition to trans athletes in girls’s competitions.

But Griffin says she nonetheless can’t entry the group’s on-line group discussion board—the identical platform the place she sought help for altering its transgender-athlete coverage.

“I had the actual hearing last month, and in less than a week, I received the resolution, which was that I was not found guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct,” Griffin instructed Fox News Digital.

The grievance stemmed from Griffin’s posts on the USMS group discussion board, the place she advocated for aligning the group’s eligibility guidelines extra intently with World Aquatics and referred to a transgender competitor as a person. (Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images)

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“It was eight months of wondering if I was gonna be kicked out of swimming over a grievance that should have never been brought up in the first place.”

The grievance stemmed from Griffin’s posts on the USMS group discussion board, the place she advocated for aligning the group’s eligibility guidelines extra intently with World Aquatics and referred to a transgender competitor as a person.

USMS beforehand confirmed that a person member—not the group itself—filed a grievance associated to its code of conduct. Griffin stated on the time that the case might have resulted within the elimination of her swimming occasions and honors or her expulsion from USMS.

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That risk is now gone, Griffin stated.

Her discussion board restriction shouldn’t be.

“Unfortunately, I’m still banned from using the U.S. Masters community forum, which is the only place I can possibly discuss policy change with any other members,” Griffin stated. “I’m really upset about it because I was cleared of the wrongdoing, and I’m still not allowed back in the one place where members can discuss the policy.”

“I’ve been silenced, basically,” she added. “The forum’s the only way to reach other members around the country about policy issues.”

Griffin emerged as a critic of USMS after competing in opposition to a transgender athlete on the group’s 2025 Spring National Championship in San Antonio. Griffin beforehand stated she didn’t study the competitor’s delivery intercourse till after the meet.

The controversy prompted intense scrutiny of the group’s eligibility guidelines. USMS launched an interim coverage on July 1, 2025, earlier than revising it once more on Feb. 21, 2026.

Under the present coverage, swimmers could take part within the competitors class corresponding with their gender identification or expression. However, swimmers searching for nationwide recognition within the girls’s class—together with data, Top 10 rankings and All-American or All-Star honors—should certify that they had been feminine at delivery.

Local awards and scoring could be dealt with in a different way in jurisdictions with nondiscrimination legal guidelines requiring recognition based mostly on gender identification.

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Griffin contends the coverage nonetheless fails to guard the ladies’s competitors class as a result of it permits organic males to race straight in opposition to feminine swimmers, even when they’re ineligible for sure nationwide honors.

She cited a latest Minnesota Masters state championship the place she stated a transgender athlete swept a girls’s age-group class. Griffin stated many USMS members stay unaware of how ceaselessly the group’s coverage has modified or what its present guidelines enable.

“One of my teammates who feels the same way I do about the policy was at a meet down south, and she was shocked that so many members, women and men alike, had no idea that they had changed the policy three times since last year, or that they were even still allowing men to swim against women,” Griffin stated.