“Riley Gaines refuses to be silenced. “This is not progressive,” she told The Post about biologically male transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. “We are not moving forward. This is actually quite the opposite. We’re going back 50 years in time to before Title IX.”
The former University of Kentucky swimmer stepped into the spotlight in March of last year when she first spoke out against biological male athletes competing in women’s sports.
“We have to let people know as a group that a majority of us female athletes — or females in general — are not okay with this,” she said on the “Unmuted” podcast after tying for fifth place with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the women’s 200-meter NCAA championship.
“If we as female athletes aren’t willing to stick up for ourselves, we shouldn’t expect someone else to stand up for us,” Gaines told The Post. “Someone has to speak out truthfully. So I did.””
[quoted from NY Post 3/2/23 https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/riley-gaines-trans-athletes-competing-with-women-not-progressive/ ]
