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Riley Gaines, a twelve-time All-American and three-time Southeastern Conference champion who came out of the University of Kentucky, gained national attention over the issue of men pretending to be women who then are allowed into women's sports.
In 2022, she tied with male swimmer Lia Thomas in the 200 meter freestyle at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships. Despite tying with Thomas, Gaines says she was told the trophy would go to Thomas for “photo purposes.”
After this occurred, she became very outspoken about the ridiculously absurd ideology that allows for men who are transitioning or have transitioned to women being permitted to participate in women's sports at all levels, from grammar school to college.
She has become aware of how the media, as well as some prominent "civil rights-concerned" groups, have portrayed this matter as a non-issue. Gaines is using her recently acquired fame to bring up the fact that this matter is not a non-issue.
Her advocacy extends beyond women's sports, particularly on situations where women are put at risk. These include the debate over public restrooms, where the transitioned — and not-so-transitioned — are allowed to frequent the ladies' bathrooms, even though they still have male genitalia.
She holds equal concern for women in prison, who are increasingly at risk of being raped by fully intact males who have told prison authorities that they identify as female. Due to the new philosophy that any individual can be whatever sex that the individual has decided upon, these men are then allowed into women's prisons.
So just today Gaines made a point of highlighting Ted Cruz as he recently questioned a woman who wants a Congressional appointment to a more prominent spot in the judiciary. This is a very revealing interchange between Cruz and the woman judge:
The above video shows how extremely scary the positioning of people with "woke philosophies" in places of power happens to be.
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I have been impressed with the interviews I have seen or heard of Riley Gaines. She is turning out to be a great representative for sanity. She has a compelling personal story, and effectively explains why it matters for the girls who are growing up today, girls who have reason to fear speaking up for themselves. She can speak for them.
Andrew Klavan interviewed her this week. I listened to the audio on Apple Podcasts, but there is video of what I assume to be the same interview on Mr. Klavan's YouTube channel. In the Klavan interview, she says in her public speaking classes her face would "turn the color of a tomato" and yet now she is speaking to audiences all over the place with apparent ease.
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The whole boys and men who pretend to be girls and women "transgender" thing seems so exploitative of girls and women. One of the comments Ms. Gaines makes in her interviews is that all the concern expressed by officials and administrators is about the feelings of the one boy or man pretending to be a girl or woman, and that officials and administrators not only express no concern for the feelings of the many real girls and women who are made uncomfortable or embarrassed, but tell the real girls and women that their feelings are wrong and need to be changed.
The putting of men into women's prisons just because the man says, "I feel like a woman" is insane. I keep reading of a number of female inmates getting pregnant from these "I feel like a woman" men. I understand that the case cited by Sen. Cruz is common - a large percentage of the men who claim to be women and seek to be assigned to women's prisons are sex offenders. Men who have committed sexual crimes is a category of prisoner that seems particularly dangerous to send into a place full of women who have no way to escape his predations.
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Terrific questioning by Senator Cruz. Thanks for sharing it.
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Gaines truly has been impressive since her being denied a trophy over the need for an athletic org to appear woke.
Thank you for including the info about Klavan. I'll be watching that show.
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“After this occurred, she became very outspoken about the ridiculously absurd ideology that allows for men who are transitioning or have transitioned to women are allowed to participate in women’s sports at ll levels, from grammar school to college.”
I disagree with your implicit assumption that there are men who are transitioning or have transitioned to women. I do not believe that that is possible.
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