Former Kentucky Swimmer Riley Gaines Accuses NCAA of Encouraging Sexual Assault and Voyeurism by Allowing Men To Expose Themselves To Female Swimmers
A former Riley Gaines is a University of Kentucky swimmer She has advocated for separate locker rooms in the NCAA for women swimming against transgender athletes. This is an opinion she held since Lia Thomas (real name William Thomas) was granted the same privileges for female athletes. She repeated the same allegation this week while campaigning for different locker rooms at the NCAA for transgender female swimmers.
According to Gaines, a 12-time All-American, she and her teammates were exposed to Thomas’ “male genitalia” After a meeting, you will be in the locker room.
“We were not forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia,” Gaines told American Reports. “We did not give our consent. They did not ask for our consent, but in that locker room, we turned around, and a 6-foot-4 biological man was dropping his pants and watching us undress, and we were exposed to male genitalia.”
“That, to me, was worse than the competition piece,” Gaines claimed that her locker-room allegation was true. “Not even probably a year, two years ago, this would have been considered some form of sexual assault, voyeurism. But now not even are they just allowing it to happen, it’s almost as if these large organizations are encouraging it to happen.”
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This isn’t the first time, Gaines claimed Thomas exposed himself to other female athletes. In September 2022 In an opinion piece for Fox News, she wrote, “Under Title IX, women are entitled to their own locker rooms so that we can be vulnerable and change in private.”
She elaborated: “Yet at the NCAA Championships, I saw a 6’4″ biological male exposing male parts in our women’s locker room. To be perfectly clear, the anatomy I and many other women were forced to view, confirms Thomas is a male.”
Thomas completed his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 2022.
During college, Thomas competed on both the men’s and women’s swim teams, making history in March 2022 as the first openly NCAA Division I wins transgender athlete national championship in any sport after taking first place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event.
Many were shocked when transgender athletes were told they could only follow the rules of a 2010 policy. Under this policy, it’s required that male-to-female transgender athletes have less than ten nanomoles per liter of testosterone in their blood.
Research on the athletic performance and elite levels of transgender people has been limited. Several studies were published prior to the Olympic Games. These studies showed that biological men who successfully transitioned even with suppressed testosterone were more successful than their female counterparts.
According to the MacDonald Laurier Institute’s Fair, “for trans women who have successfully suppressed testosterone for 12 months, the extent of muscle/strength loss is only an approximate (and modest) -5% after 12 months,” According to the authors.
“Testosterone suppression does not remove the athletic advantage acquired under high testosterone conditions at puberty, while the male musculoskeletal advantage is retained.”
Another Study by Timothy Roberts and his colleagues The University of Missouri-Kansas City studied the athletic performance of US military personnel who had to undergo gender transition while serving.
After one year of hormone therapy (which typically involves increasing estrogen and reducing testosterone), transgender women still had an advantage over women. Transgender women had a running speed of 12% after two years.
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