Trans athlete Sadie Schreiner alleges ban from Team USA track events amid quiet rule change to gender policy

Maine high schooler Cassidy Carlisle opened up to Fox News Digital about her experience dealing with trans people in the state's public schools and sports, as she is now taking an active hand in fighting against it.

Transgender track and field runner Sadie Schreiner posted a video on social media last Sunday claiming to have been "threatened" and banned from the US Track and Field (USATF) events while at the USATF Maine Association Indoor Championships. The president of USATF Maine said Schreiner competed in the event and no disqualification occurred. 

Schreiner recorded the video while sitting by a campfire in the woods, somberly suggesting the athlete did compete in the Maine event, but had also likely competed in Schreiner's last organized track meet in the U.S. 

"I very likely just ran what will be my last meet in the United States," Schreiner said, later adding, "I will find a way to keep competing, but I doubt that will be in the United States."

Schreiner said USATF changed its policy on transgender eligibility from the one used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which allows biological males to compete in the women's category, to the one used by World Athletics, which bans any athlete who has undergone male puberty from competing as a woman.

TRANS ATHLETE SADIE SCHREINER NOT COMPETING FOR RIT WOMEN'S TRACK TEAM AFTER TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER

Sadie Schreiner finishes third in the 200m race at the NCAA DIII outdoor track and field championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium on May 25, 2024, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The USATF's official transgender eligibility policy does now reference the World Athletics guidelines on its official webpage. It