Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines made an appearance at UC Davis earlier this week, where she continued to fight for fairness in girls' and women's sports.
Riley Gaines has been fighting for fairness in girls' and women's sports ever since she competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in college. Gaines has become a main voice of the movement, speaking at events throughout the nation. On Friday, she appeared at UC Davis. She was met with dozens of protestors, though, similar to her prior appearances, who deemed that she was transphobic because of her views. Gaines, though, says that notion could not be further from the truth.
It just cracks me up. To anyone who calls me a ‘transphobe’ — that word has literally no weight, no meaning, when you throw it around for my message here. There’s man, there’s woman, you can’t change your sex. If that makes me a transphobe, so be it,' she said, via the Fresno Bee. Gaines has said in the past that she understands that people may feel misgendered and fully supports those who want to live based on their identity as long as sports remain fair.
would be remiss if I didn’t mention as a Christian myself, I entirely see this as spiritual warfare,' she said. Gaines said an 'overwhelming majority' of female athletes share her ideology. 'I don’t claim to speak for every single female athlete on that pool deck. But I do claim to speak for the overwhelming majority of us, because I can wholeheartedly attest to the tears that I saw from the girls who . . . missed out on being named All-American by one place.
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