Former Kentucky swimming champion Riley Gains blasted the NCAA for allowing biological male Lia Thomas to compete as a woman.
“I felt betrayed. I felt belittled. I felt reduced to a photo-op. But my feelings didn’t matter. What mattered to the NCAA was the feelings of a biological male,” Gaines added.
The college star also said federal Title IX rules should not be used “to displace female athletes in the pool and on the podium” and accused the NCAA of “intentionally and explicitly discriminated on the basis of sex.”working to save women’s sports and to encourage the sports world to disallow men claiming to be transgender women from competing as women.
Gaines also said that being forced to share a locker room with a man who still retained his male genitalia despite claiming to be a woman was galling. “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 share a locker room with Thomas,” she continued. “A 6-foot-4, 22-year-old male equipped with and exposed 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.: The NCAA forced me and my female swimmers to share a locker room….
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