Former college swimmer Riley Gaines has become a voice for protecting women and girls in sports in recent months. This week, she offered testimony that was emotional at times, about competing against trans swimmer and biological male Lia Thomas.
The Daily Signal provides a partial transcript:
In addition to being forced to give up our awards and our titles and our opportunities, the NCAA forced me and my female swimmers to swim, to share a locker room with Thomas, a 6’2″, 22-year-old male, equipped with and exposing male genitalia.Let me be clear about this: We were not forewarned we would be sharing a locker room. No one asked for our consent and we did not give our consent. And I’ll set the scene—a swimming locker room is not a place of modesty.You’re undressing, you’re fully exposed, and we were forced to take off our swimsuit in front of a man, who was doing the exact same thing.If nothing else, I truly hope you-all, you can see this is a violation of our right to privacy and how some of us have felt uncomfortable, embarrassed, and even traumatized by this experience.I know that I don’t speak for every single person who competed against Lia Thomas, but I know I speak for many.Because I saw the tears, I saw the tears from the ninth and 17th place finishers, who missed out on being named an All-American by one place. And I can attest to the extreme discomfort in the locker room, from these 18- to 22-year-old girls, when you turn around and there’s male eyes watching in that same room.
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During the same hearing, Gaines’ claims were challenged by queer activist Kelley Robinson. Gaines shut her down quickly.
From FOX News:
Riley Gaines grand slams queer activist’s Senate testimony that men can’t beat Serena WilliamsFormer NCAA swim star Riley Gaines slammed the president of far-left Human Rights Campaign for denying the biological advantages of male athletes in a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.Kelley Robinson, who describes herself as the first queer, Black president of the Human Rights Campaign, claimed that tennis legend Serena Williams could beat men at the sport at the hearing on “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.””There’s been this news article about men that think they can beat Serena Williams in tennis,” Robinson said. “And it’s just not the case. She is stronger than them.”Gaines, a University of Kentucky 12-time All-American swimmer who tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, immediately shut down Robinson’s claim: “Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player.”
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Back in 2012, Democrats waged a narrative war on Republicans, claiming that they were fighting a “war on women.”
Today, they attack women who object to the trans agenda. Ironic, isn’t it?
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