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A transgender swimmer who was at the center of a national controversy earlier this year has been banned from World Aquatics until 2030 and stripped of all competitive results from June 2022 to October 2024 after refusing to take a sex verification test.

Ana Caldas was listed on the Aquatics Integrity Unit’s suspended persons list this week for violating articles in the World Aquatics integrity code related to providing false information and defining the criteria for men’s and women’s competition categories.

World Aquatics changed its gender eligibility policy in 2022, limiting the participation of transgender women in the women’s category to those who transitioned before the age of 12 or before they reached Tanner Stage 2 of puberty.

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