Category: Riley Gaines

Riley Gaines Speaks at Tennessee ‘Save Women’s Sports’ Event

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—If female swimmers had all boycotted rather than race against a man, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas would never have entered the pool, said former professional swimmer Riley Gaines. Speaking to a crowd of over 100 at an April 27 “Our Spaces/Our Sports: Women Hold the Line” event in Nashville, Tennessee, Gaines said that if…


Female Athletes Should Boycott Sports To Shut Out Biological Males Competing as Transgender, Activist Says

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—If female swimmers all had boycotted, rather than race against a biological man, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas never would have entered the pool, says former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines. “Boycott—if we can orchestrate that in any capacity—that’s an effective way to make change,” Gaines said at an event in Nashville, Tennessee on…


House Republican Women Tout Passage of Bill Barring Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports

Women in the House Republican caucus celebrated the passage of a bill on Thursday that would bar athletes born as male from competing in sports designated for women and girls. The bill, H.R. 734—the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023″—states that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education…


Protester Arrested for Harassment at Riley Gaines Event in New York

Authorities arrested a protester on April 13 outside an event at the University of Buffalo (UB) where Riley Gaines, a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) swimmer, gave a speech on protecting women’s sports. John Della Contrada, a spokesperson for the New York-based university, told Campus Reform that police arrested a 22-year-old protester and charged…


Free Speech Advocacy Group Condemns ‘Mob Censorship’ of Riley Gaines

A constitutional rights legal organization that defends freedom of speech on and off campuses is demanding accountability for the “mob censorship” that took place at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was attacked by a group of protesters on April 6. In a letter (pdf) addressed to university President Lynn…


Bill Aiming to Protect Women and Girls in Sports Headed for House Vote

A bill to protect women and girls in sports is heading for a House vote, possibly as early as next week. Dubbed “the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023,” the bill is a direct challenge to the newly proposed Title IX rule by the Department of Education under the Biden administration….


Bill to Bar Biological Males From Competing in Women’s Sports Headed for House Vote

A bill to protect women and girls in sports is heading for a House vote, possibly as early as next week. Dubbed “the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023,” the bill is a direct challenge to the newly proposed Title IX rule by the Department of Education under the Biden administration….


Rex Murphy: The Attack on Riley Gaines Shows Just How Far Things Have Sunk

Commentary  Women are women. How’s that for a sentence? A declaration. To say a woman is a woman requires no prefix. It requires no qualifier. No extra start-up syllable. It requires no semantic trickery to take its plain and always-understood sense—its sense since the beginning of time and the discovery of language itself—to try to turn it…


Former NCAA Swimmer Riley Gaines Refutes SFSU Statement That Trans Activists Protested ‘Peacefully’

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines—who said she was physically attacked at San Francisco State University (SFSU) on Thursday night after giving a speech on the issue of “Saving Women’s Sports”—rejected the SFSU’s statement that suggested transgender activists had protested “peacefully” at the event. “I had to reread that to make sure that they actually used…


Former NCAA Swimmer Riley Gaines Refutes University Statement That Trans Activists Protested ‘Peacefully’

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines—who said she was physically attacked at San Francisco State University (SFSU) on Thursday night after giving a speech on the issue of “Saving Women’s Sports”—rejected the SFSU’s statement that suggested transgender activists had protested “peacefully” at the event. “I had to reread that to make sure that they actually used…