want to compete as transgender male to female athletes should be accommodated in a separate or more creative manner." In 2021, de Varona joined the Women's Sports Policy Working Group, formed in opposition to President Joe Biden's Executive Order 13988 that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender women athletes. To achieve this end, the Order's stated goal is "protecting the girls’ and women's competitive categories, while crafting accommodations for trans athletes into sport wherever possible." Personal life In 1986, de Varona graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her younger sister is actress-director Joanna Kerns, who played Maggie Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains. She and her husband, John Pinto, have two children, John David and Joanna. See also List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of University of California, Los Angeles people World record progression 200 metres individual medley World record progression 400 metres individual medley World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay References External links Image of U.S. Olympic swimmers Donna deVarona and Cathy Ellis, California, 1964. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1947 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers American female medley swimmers American television sports announcers Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Motorsport announcers National Football League announcers Olympic Games broadcasters Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in swimming Recipients of the Olympic Order Swimmers from San Diego Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1963 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Swimming commentators Track and field broadcasters University of California, Los Angeles alumni Women sports announcers Women's Sports Foundation executives World record setters in swimming 21st-century American women