{"id":1841374,"date":"2023-02-09T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841374"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:50:35","slug":"riley-gaines-lia-thomas-naked-in-locker-room-would-have-been-considered-sexual-assault-voyeurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-lia-thomas-naked-in-locker-room-would-have-been-considered-sexual-assault-voyeurism\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Gaines: Lia Thomas Naked In Locker Room Would Have Been Considered \u2018Sexual Assault, Voyeurism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Friley-gaines-lia-thomas-naked-in-locker-room-would-have-been-considered-sexual-assault-voyeurism%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=1841374&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-->\n<p>Swimming star from college <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lia-thomas-competitor-riley-gaines-shuts-down-propaganda-rumors-she-dodged-trumps-kiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley Gaines<\/a>The transgender swimmer was a couple. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/swimmer-who-competed-with-lia-thomas-at-ncaa-championships-no-one-warned-us-he-would-undress-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lia Thomas<\/a> at last year\u2019s NCAA championships, said sharing a locker room with a biological male felt like being a victim of \u201csome form of sexual\u00a0assault, voyeurism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines, a Kentucky All-American and five-time Southeastern Conference Champion, calls for separate facilities at the NCAA for transgender rivals. She claimed that seeing Thomas&#8217; male genitalia in a locker room made her feel violated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a\u00a06\u20194\u2033 biological man dropping his\u00a0pants and watching us undress,\u00a0and we were exposed to male\u00a0genitalia,\u201d She recalled.\u00a0\u201cNot even probably a year, two\u00a0years ago, this would have been\u00a0considered some form of sexual\u00a0assault, voyeurism. But now, not\u00a0even are they just allowing it\u00a0to happen, it\u2019s almost as if\u00a0these large organizations are\u00a0encouraging it to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines was the only one who attended. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-took-victory-lap-during-state-of-the-union-for-strong-manufacturing-sector-industry-leader-says-trump-deserves-the-credit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union speech<\/a> Tuesday as a guest of Rep. Lisa McClain, (R-MI), tied Thomas in the women\u2019s 200-meter race, it was Thomas who was initially awarded the medal. That added insult to injury for Gaines, who doesn\u2019t believe biological males should be able to compete against women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have all these\u00a0people all the time tell me how\u00a0courageous it is to speak to this and how brave\u00a0I am, but truthfully, does it make someone\u00a0brave to just acknowledge that women\u00a0deserve equal opportunities?\u201d She said. \u201cThat\u2019s how far we have come as a\u00a0society and within our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was hailed by college sports\u2019 governing body after claiming to have become a woman, Gaines noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, after the NCAA championships the NCAA then nominated Thomas for NCAA Woman of the Year,\u201d She said. \u201cSo we\u2019re celebrating this movement. This isn\u2019t something that happened by chance on a one-off basis; they\u2019re encouraging men to compete in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines stated that her female peers were afraid to speak out and condemn the practice of biological males competing against women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are\u00a0terrified, especially speaking\u00a0from my experience of talking to\u00a0other NCAA swimmers\u00a0specifically,\u201d She said. \u201cLia Thomas\u2019s teammates even. They are told\u00a0their school has made their\u00a0stance for them.\u00a0They are told that if they feel\u00a0uncomfortable seeing male\u00a0genitalia in the locker room,\u00a0then they should seek counseling\u00a0resources. They\u2019re told that they will never get into\u00a0grad school if they speak out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these terrible, awful things that are\u00a0not true.\u00a0They are told, of course, that they will be called a\u00a0bigot and hateful and transphobic, but it doesn\u2019t make you any of those things to acknowledge that there are two sexes,\u00a0you cannot change your sex and\u00a0women deserve respect and opportunities,\u201d She concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her\">\u2018I Left There With No Trophy\u2019: NCAA Female Swimmer Who Tied For Fifth With Trans Athlete Says Officials Put Lia Thomas Ahead Of\u00a0Her<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former college swimming star Riley Gaines, who tied transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at last year\u2019s NCAA championships, said sharing a locker room with a biological male felt like being a victim of \u201csome form of sexual\u00a0assault, voyeurism.\u201d Gaines, an All-American at University of Kentucky and a five-time Southeastern Conference champion, is calling for the NCAA &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1841377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4767,6201,17380,18195,15079,5671,9522,4859,10215,18194],"class_list":["post-1841374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-assault","tag-considered","tag-gaines","tag-lia","tag-locker","tag-naked","tag-riley","tag-sexual","tag-thomas","tag-voyeurism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}