Just over a year ago, I argued in Fox News that national governing bodies like USA Volleyball and USA Fencing were corruptibly operating outside of accountability. Now they are saying the quiet part out loud, admitting in Congressional testimony and written policy that they won’t comply with female-safety/opportunity standards unless “required by oversight bodies.” Female athletes like me have suffered the devastating consequence of the lack of NGB oversight, and it is time Congress and the White House finally call them out.

USA Fencing released a “Revised Transgender & Non-Binary Athlete Eligibility Policy” earlier this month with the added note “it will only be implemented if required by oversight bodies.” This follows their humiliating spotlight when female fencer Stephanie Turner had to bow out of her own competition when the rule makers allowed a male opponent to jeopardize her safety. The USA Fencing-sanctioned event issued her a disqualifying black card as a “direct result of her decision to decline to fence an eligible opponent.”

Their “inclusive” message was exposed in the light—it’s nothing but discriminatory exclusion.

Read the rest of this op ed here in Fox News.