Trans athlete Sadie Schreiner alleges ban from Team USA track events amid quiet rule change to gender policy

Transgender way and tract runner Sadie Schreiner posted a video connected societal media past Sunday claiming to person been banned from the US Track and Field (USATF) events astatine the USATF Maine Association Indoor Championships. The president of USATF Maine said Schreiner competed successful the lawsuit and nary disqualification occurred. 

Schreiner recorded the video portion sitting by a campfire successful the woods, somberly suggesting the jock had apt conscionable competed successful Schreiner's past organized way conscionable successful the U.S. 

"I precise apt conscionable ran what volition beryllium my past conscionable successful the United States," Schreiner said, aboriginal adding, "I volition find a mode to support competing, but I uncertainty that volition beryllium successful the United States."

Schreiner said USATF changed its argumentation connected transgender eligibility from the 1 utilized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which allows biologic males to vie successful the women's category, to the 1 utilized by World Athletics, which bans immoderate jock who has undergone antheral puberty from competing arsenic a woman.

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Sadie Schreiner finishes 3rd successful the 200m contention astatine the NCAA DIII outdoor way and tract championships astatine Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium connected May 25, 2024, successful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The USATF's authoritative transgender eligibility argumentation does present notation the World Athletics guidelines connected its authoritative webpage. It antecedently referenced the IOCs policy, arsenic seen successful an archive via Wayback Machine. 

Schreiner alleges to person been told astir the alteration by USATF astatine 1 a.m. the nighttime earlier the competition.

"They tried to endanger maine by saying they present adopted World Athletics transgender policy," Schreiner said successful the video, aboriginal adding, "USA Track and Field purely did this conscionable to prohibition maine from competing."

USATF Maine president Mark Dennett told Fox News Digital that Schreiner competed astatine the lawsuit successful Maine and nary disqualification occurred.

"The jock did vie and determination were nary disqualifications successful the meet," Dennett said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Schreiner for a effect to Dennett's statement. 

USATF's updated argumentation and Schreiner's alleged incidental astatine the Maine Association Indoor Championships came weeks aft a arguable quality astatine the USATF Open Masters Championships connected March 1. 

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Sadie Schreiner races to suffice successful the 400m contention astatine the NCAA DIII outdoor way and tract championships connected May 24, 2024, successful Myrtle Beach. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

There, Schreiner competed successful the women's 400-meter dash and 200-meter dash, taking archetypal spot successful some events. 

Schreiner won the 400-meter dash by default, arsenic the different participants successful the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, had nary recorded times and are listed arsenic DNS, did not start. 

In the 200-meter dash, Schreiner defeated 14-year-old runner-up Zwange Edwards, 16-year-old third-place finisher Zariah Hargrove, 15-year-old Leah Walker and 18-year-old Ainsley Rausch. That lawsuit besides had aggregate participants listed arsenic DNS, including 18-year-old Jordan Carr, 46-year-old Amanda Taylor, Vidolova again and 16-year-old Paula Damiens.

Schreiner's quality and consequent wins astatine that lawsuit prompted disapproval connected societal media. Schreiner adjacent suggested that incidental is what prompted the caller change. 

"USA Track and Field has silently banned trans athletes owed to my participation," Shreiner said. 

There has been an ongoing conflict implicit trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports betwixt the authorities authorities and President Donald Trump's administration.

On March 17, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it recovered the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School successful usurpation of Title IX for continuing to alteration trans inclusion successful girls' sports. 

In the announcement, the section said Maine had 10 days to close its policies done a signed statement oregon hazard referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for due action.

The deadline to comply is coming up wrong the week. 

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Schreiner antecedently competed for Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) women's way and tract squad and gained nationalist notoriety for dominating pistillate opponents and predominant societal media videos boasting astir it arsenic an openly transgender competitor. 

However, Schreiner was ruled ineligible to vie for RIT aft the NCAA revised its sex eligibility argumentation Feb. 6, 1 time aft Trump signed an enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from women's and girls' sports. 

RIT provided a connection to Fox News Digital confirming this connected Feb. 12. 

"We proceed to travel the NCAA information argumentation for transgender student-athletes pursuing the Trump administration’s enforcement order. Sadie is not participating successful the adjacent meet," the connection said. 

Later successful February, Schreiner posted a video claiming the athlete's moving velocity became slower aft taking medicine to summation estrogen. Schreiner spoke of wanting to talk to policymakers astatine the NCAA to sermon the argumentation earlier it went into effect. 

"They could person seen the results of their erstwhile argumentation and however it made maine equitable, but they didn't," Schreiner said. "And I would inactive emotion to person that conversation. I would inactive emotion to amended much radical if I was decently allowed to." 

Schreiner has been a arguable fig successful women's way and tract successful the past year, particularly aft an quality astatine the 2024 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships successful May. 

Earlier that month, Schreiner competed astatine the Liberty League Championship and won some the women's 200- and 400-meter, breaking the 400-meter grounds successful the process. Schreiner would person finished past by much than 2 seconds successful the men's competition.

In precocious January, Schreiner bragged aft winning an lawsuit against pistillate opponents. 

"Not the contention I was looking for astatine each this week, my spikes astir fell disconnected connected the crook and with a mediocre commencement my clip wasn’t astir what I wanted," the runner wrote successful an Instagram post.

"The bully quality is that the play conscionable started, and I’m going to permission everything connected the way astatine nationals," Schreiner added with a transgender pridefulness emblem emoji.

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Sadie Schreiner puts a transgender emblem successful her hairsbreadth earlier heading to the awards basal astatine the NCAA DIII outdoor way and tract championships connected May 25, 2024, successful Myrtle Beach. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On Jan. 17, Schreiner took archetypal spot successful the 200- and 400-meter dashes astatine the Brockport Friday Night Rust Buster, taking apical spots implicit 2 pistillate seniors. In the 200-meter dash, Schreiner bushed RIT teammate Caroline Hill by 1.5 seconds and took archetypal spot successful the 400-meter dash from Brockport’s Marissa Wise by astir 3.5 seconds. Schreiner’s results achieved automatic qualification for the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Championships.

On Jan. 24, Schreiner took archetypal spot successful the 200-meter dash astatine the RIT Friday Meet, beating retired Liberty League inferior Lexi Rodriguez of Brockport with an adjacent faster time. On Jan. 30, Schreiner took archetypal spot successful the 200- and 400-meter dashes against Liberty League opponents.

Schreiner besides spoke retired against states and colleges that were not offering the trans jock a afloat assistance erstwhile Schreiner wanted to transportation successful December. The jock blamed laws successful 25 states that prohibit trans athletes from competing with girls and women. 

"Among each the hurdles transfers usually have, determination is an other furniture due to the fact that it is trans, 50% of the state banned maine from participating and that meant I couldn't be immoderate of those colleges adjacent if they reached retired to maine with a afloat ride," Schreiner said.

"It besides became wide that states that did, nary substance however adamant the coaches were to person maine connected their teams, the assemblage administrations would usually halt them from allowing maine to participate." 

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