National tennis governing body quietly bans trans womenhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/national-tennis-governing-body-quietly-bans-trans-women/ 🔗John Russell (4 Dec 2025)
The United States Tennis Association (USTA), the national governing body for tennis in the U.S., has quietly banned transgender women from competing in women's events.
According to independent journalist Marisa Kabas, who first reported the news in her newsletter The Handbasket this week, the policy change was made to comply with a February 5 executive order rescinding federal funding for educational programs that allow trans women and girls to participate in women's and girls' athletics programs.
Kabas reports that the change came in response to a directive from the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In July, the USOPC banned trans women from competing in women's Olympic sports, citing the current administration's anti-trans executive order. The IOC is expected to implement a blanket ban on trans women competing in women's events at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
USTA's new policy notes that "Failure to comply with this directive risks the USTA's status as the National Governing Body ('NGB') for the sport of tennis in the United States," according to Kabas.
Kabas also notes that USTA's new policy comes on the heels of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announcing an investigation into the organization's Texas league "to determine if the organization has violated Texas law by allowing biological males to participate in women's matches."
