{"id":1425078,"date":"2022-04-08T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425078"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:23","slug":"female-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-on-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-this-is-not-ok-and-its-not-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-on-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-this-is-not-ok-and-its-not-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Kentucky Swimmer Riley Gaines on Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas: \u201cThis Is Not Ok, and It\u2019s Not Fair\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffemale-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-on-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-this-is-not-ok-and-its-not-fair%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines spoke out against University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines, who tied Thomas in the\u00a0women\u2019s 200-meter freestyle event at the NCAA championships in Atlanta, GA, said the NCAA handled the situation \u201cextremely poorly\u201d because they gave Thomas the fifth-place trophy and told her to pose with the sixth-place trophy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMe and Lia just recently tied at the NCAA championships,\u201d Gaines told Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d \u201cAnd honestly, I think the NCAA handled everything extremely poorly, starting from when we finished, and I went behind the podium to collect my f trophy, and you know, they kind of blatantly told me that Lia would hold the fifth place trophy and that I could pose with the sixth place trophy for photos and would be mailed a fifth place trophy in the mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd when I kind of questioned it, you know, I asked them, is there a reason why you\u2019re giving Lia the trophy? He just explained to me that we\u2019re giving it in chronological order, and I questioned him again, you know, what does that mean? We tied what are we being chronological about? He kind of blatantly said, we\u2019re just going to give the trophy to Lia. We respect and admire your swim, but Lia needs to hold the trophy,\u201d she added. \u201cI was baffled really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines described having to compete against a biological male as \u201ctotally wrong\u201d and \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]\u2019m just fortunate enough to where I have such an amazing support system at the University of Kentucky, whether that be from the athletic director all the way down to my head coach, Lars Jorgensen,\u201d she proclaimed. \u201cBut just speaking for them, it\u2019s just totally wrong. And I know I can\u2019t speak for everyone, but I am almost certain I\u2019m speaking for a large majority of female athletes, that this is just not OK, and it\u2019s not fair. And, you know, we\u2019re dealing with something that\u2019s completely out of our control when we\u2019re racing, you know, biological males.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines continued, \u201cWhether that be they have, you know, different lung capacities, their high, obviously, testosterone levels, whether you be on testosterone blockers or not, it doesn\u2019t suppress, you know, going through puberty as a male, especially, you know, the one in question who swam three years as a male on UPenn. So it just completely unfair. And it\u2019s a matter of equity, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker\u00a0on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines spoke out against University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas on Wednesday. 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