U.S. Senate Committee Makes New Allegations of Trans Athletes Against USA Hockey

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has accused Team USA’s governing body, USA Hockey, of facilitating competitions that allow trans athletes to compete against female players in officially sanctioned leagues.

“The committee recently learned that months after USA Hockey received complaints about trans women playing in a women’s league in Dallas, the women’s league in Dallas was suspended. It will be replaced with an open league to ‘provide a competitive experience that everyone can enjoy.’ This essentially means that there is no longer a Dallas League dedicated solely to women, and that women who joined the Dallas League and wish to compete only against women now have to choose between potentially competing with men or not competing at all,” according to a statement from the Senate committee to Fox News Digital.

“USA Hockey chooses to favor trans players instead of protecting opportunities for women.”

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The U.S. Capitol is seen behind the Transgender Pride Flag during the Trans Day of Visibility rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2025. The event featured trans, non-binary and gender-expansive people and supporters advocating for trans rights and equality on International Transgender Day of Visibility. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The committee also provided a written report on the situation to Fox News Digital.

The report claims that after USA Hockey updated its participant eligibility policy to comply with USOPC policy and President Donald Trump’s executive order to “save women’s sports,” USA Hockey subsequently created a new classification for adult hockey registration called “the Open Classification.”

The open classification is promoted as a “flexible eligibility path for any registered USA Hockey member, regardless of sex or gender identity” and is specifically designed for trans athletes to play women’s sports.

“US Hockey leadership encourages women’s leagues and tournaments with women’s divisions to continue to promote themselves as being for women, but with caveats that the league/tournament division includes male athletes. This loophole allows men who identify as women to participate in a league that is marketed as a women’s league,” the report said.

The report specifically mentions the Dallas Stars Women’s Hockey League (DSWHL) in Texas.

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U.S. women’s hockey players gather in front of the net before their semifinal against Finland at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on February 14, 2022. (Petr David Josek/AP)

“The DSWHL women’s league began its spring season in April 2026, after USA Hockey’s updated eligibility policy went into effect. Despite this, there are several men who identify as women playing in the league. USA Hockey is aware of this and has done nothing to prevent the men from continuing to participate in the women’s league. As a result, women who joined the DSWHL women’s league specifically to avoid competing against men are now forced to compete against men if they want to play the sport they love,” it said report.

“This is wrong on every level and clearly violates President Trump’s executive order and recent changes to USA Hockey’s gender policy.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to USA Hockey and the NHL’s Dallas Stars, of which the DSWHL is an affiliate, for comment.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) updated its safety guidelines for athletes last July to allow only biological females to compete in the women’s category, to ensure compliance with Trump’s executive order.

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Hockey pucks rest on the Olympic logo during the women’s ice hockey quarterfinal between the United States and the Czech Republic at the Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing on February 11, 2022. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Team USA’s individual sports governing bodies shortly thereafter updated their own policies to accommodate that change.

However, other governing bodies, including USA Rugby, have also held matches in an “open division” that allows for both biological genders.

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Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital who covers critical political and cultural issues in sports with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to Title IX enforcement, and in legacy media including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.

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