Riley Gaines snapped back at Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt, I-Omaha, on X over criticism of her speech about fairness in sports in the state this past weekend.
responded to a social media post from a Nebraska state lawmaker on Monday who criticized the former NCAA swim star over her speech about fairness in women’s sports.
"It can be hard, when we're young, to not win a trophy sometimes. But we grow up and realize it’s not the end of the world and we don't need to turn that loss into our entire personality," Hunt wrote in response to the Lincoln Journal Star’s post."Imagine missing the point this much lol," she wrote. Riley Gaines speaks before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Greenville Convention Center on June 2, 2023.
Hunt wrote:"If it seems disrespectful, it’s because I don’t respect people who are part of this discriminatory movement to push LGBTQ ppl back into the shadows. There’s no ‘trans debate’ or ‘trans question.’ Theres just trans people and people who don’t want there to be trans people." at the Leadership Institute, has talked about her experience at the 2022 NCAA Championships at length and how she was forced to get changed in the same locker room as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
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