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Margherita Guzzi Vincenti became the first known Team USA Olympic athlete to sue a U.S. sports governing body in opposition of its policies allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports when she filed a class-action lawsuit against USA Fencing on Wednesday.

Vincenti’s lawsuit came the same month that a trans athlete, Dina Yukich, sued USA Fencing for being excluded from a women’s competition.

The organization is facing legal battles on both fronts in what has been a transformative year for gender policies in American sports after President Donald Trump signed the “Keeping Men’s Out of Women’s Sports” executive order in February, which prompted the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to change its own athlete safety pol

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