A conservative advocacy group says transgender athletes have captured more than 2,293 gold medals in women’s and girls’ sports across the United States, a figure it released Tuesday ahead of a scheduled Senate hearing on fairness and safety in female athletics.
Concerned Women for America said it compiled the count using HeCheated, a website that tracks transgender participation in female sports categories. According to the group, the records stretch back to the mid-1980s and include both amateur and professional events. The medal total is the organization’s own tally and has not been independently confirmed.
Beyond the gold-medal figure, the group said transgender athletes have entered more than 14,301 female sporting events and collected over $501,498 in professional prize money. In California alone, it counted 611 or more instances in which a woman or girl finished second behind a transgender competitor. Each of those numbers, the group said, has grown since a similar report it issued in July 2025.
“It is shockingly unfair for biological women to have to compete against trans-identifying men,” Penny Nance, the group’s president, said in a statement. “Our research finding that trans-identifying males have stolen over 2,293 gold medals from women in the United States is an outrage. Biological men have distinct advantages over biological women. This reality not only puts women in harm’s way, but it eliminates opportunities for biological women to earn a living and win competitions. Congress must act to protect biological women.”
The release landed a day before the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hold a hearing Wednesday on opportunities, fairness and safety for female athletes. Nance pressed lawmakers to advance measures addressing school athletics, Olympic and amateur sports, and the definition of sex under Title IX, the federal law barring sex-based discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding.
A Familiar Fault Line, New Numbers
The debate over transgender participation in women’s sports has been one of the most politically charged issues in statehouses and Congress for several years. More than two dozen states have enacted laws restricting transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ and women’s teams, while courts and federal agencies have swung back and forth on how Title IX should apply to questions of sex and gender identity.
Reports like the one released by Concerned Women for America have become a regular feature of that fight, offering supporters a running tally they can point to as evidence of what they describe as a systemic problem. The group’s methodology relies on the HeCheated database, which is itself maintained by advocates opposed to transgender inclusion in female categories. Because the underlying records are not audited by an outside body, the totals should be understood as the group’s own accounting rather than a neutral statistical finding.
The report drew heated reactions on social media, with commenters arguing that female athletes had been denied medals they earned. The release also follows a pattern in which advocacy organizations time major reports to coincide with congressional action, using the attention around hearings to amplify their preferred framing.
What the Hearing Could Focus On
Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing is expected to examine questions of competitive fairness, safety and opportunity. It is one of several congressional sessions in recent years to take up the issue, though legislation on the topic has yet to advance through both chambers.
The specific proposals Nance endorsed would touch on K-12 and college athletics, the Olympic and amateur pipeline, and the legal definition of sex under Title IX. How far those ideas can move in a narrowly divided Senate remains unclear.
For now, the group’s figures give supporters a number to cite and opponents a target to dispute. The medal count, event count and prize-money total all rest on the same database, and none has been verified by an independent source.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/09/23/report-trans-athletes-have-stolen-nearly-2300-medals-american-girls-women/