USA Gymnastics' transgender policy pages offline as Riley Gaines-Simone Biles feud rocks the sport

Previous links to three of the organization's pages outlining its transgender eligibility policies are currently offline. 

One link previously led to a November 2020 announcement that the organization no longer required trans athletes to undergo sex reassignment, legal gender recognition, and hormone therapy in order to compete in the gender category of their choosing, as seen in an archive by the Wayback Machine. That page still shows up in search results, but the link now goes to a 404 error page. 

Another link previously went to a nine-page PDF USA Gymnastics pamphlet titled "Transgender Athlete Inclusion Resources: Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes," as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. That link is also no longer accessible. 

The Wayback Machine is unable to pinpoint exactly when a web page was deleted or changed.

Fox News Digital has reached out USA Gymnastics for comment. 

The feud between Biles and Gaines has become one of the most viral topics on social media in the last three days, dominating the top trending section on X, while prompting heated debates and controversial media coverage of the issue. 

Gaines said in a social media video on Saturday that multiple Team USA athletes have reached out to her to say she agrees with her stance against allowing males in women's sports.

Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to help Champlin Park High School win a state title. 

"To be expected when your star player is a boy," Gaines wrote. 

Biles responded, calling Gaines "truly sick" for her comment and saying Gaines should be "uplifting" transgender athletes. Biles sent a second post on X telling Gaines to "bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male." 

Biles has been the subject of widespread criticism by conservatives and women's sports rights activists alike. 

President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. even joined in on the criticism with a pair of posts on X. 

Other major Team USA sport governing bodies have quietly amended their transgender policies amid rising opposition to trans inclusion in women's and girls' sports. 

The IOC allows biological males to compete in the women's category, while World Athletics bans any athlete who has undergone male puberty from competing as a woman.

"In the event that USA Fencing is forced to change its current stance in accordance with oversight bodies or federal legislation, the new policy states athletes competing in USA Fencing-sanctioned tournaments must compete according to their biological sex," the announcement read. 

The proposed updated policy ensures that the women's category "will be open exclusively to athletes of the female sex." The men's category "will be open to all other athletes who are otherwise eligible for competition."

Trump signed an executive order in February to ban trans athletes from women's and girls' sports, as the majority of Americans proved to oppose biological males being allowed to compete and share locker rooms with females. 

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.