{"id":1848342,"date":"2023-02-15T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848342"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:51:21","slug":"swim-champ-riley-gaines-drops-shocking-claims-about-lia-thomas-on-crain-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swim-champ-riley-gaines-drops-shocking-claims-about-lia-thomas-on-crain-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Champ Riley Gaines Drops Shocking Claims About Lia Thomas On \u2018Crain &amp; Co\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\">28<\/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%2Fswim-champ-riley-gaines-drops-shocking-claims-about-lia-thomas-on-crain-co%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=1848342&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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lia-thomas-competitor-riley-gaines-shuts-down-propaganda-rumors-she-dodged-trumps-kiss\/\">Riley Gaines<\/a> She made shocking allegations about her transgender pool nemesis&#8217; private proclivities <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\/\">Lia Thomas<\/a>\u00a0Interview with Crain &#038; Co. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines, the former University of Kentucky All-American who tied Thomas for fifth place in last year\u2019s NCAA 200-meter championship, has been outspoken on her opposition to biological women being forced to compete against and share locker rooms with Thomas. But in her interview with The Daily Wire\u2019s sports podcast, Gaines said she has since become even more creeped out by her experience with Thomas, who switched from University of Pennsylvania\u2019s men\u2019s team to the women\u2019s squad in 2021 after identifying as a female.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually had someone send me [Thomas\u2019] girlfriend\u2019s Instagram page, too, which I obviously looked at,\u201d Gaines said. \u201cIt is, in fact, a male who has transitioned, so the same type of transgender person as Lia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THREAD:<br \/>1. This is a \ud83e\uddf5 we never expected to write\u2026We sat down with NCAA women\u2019s swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Riley_Gaines_<\/a> And she shared some details about Lia Thomas. We did some research and now we have lots of questions. Does this really reflect what the NCAA believes a woman should be? WARNING: The following is what we found:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeCrain_\/status\/1625866875149090817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they engage in, the different things \u2014 I mean, it\u2019s probably too explicit to even [discuss] but it\u2019s mind-blowing now, sitting back looking at this in front of my eyes and knowing we had to share a locker with this person,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines said Thomas\u2019 disturbing lifestyle is common knowledge among social media-savvy swimmers. Host Jake Crain followed up the interview with a deep dive into postings by Thomas and what appears to be the swimmer\u2019s circle of friends and produced a graphic and disturbing tweet thread on what he discovered. The tweet thread included references to transgender surgeries and allusions to bizarre sexual fetishes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/crain-and-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE \u2018CRAIN &#038; CO\u201d INTERVIEW WITH SWIMMING STAR RILEY GAINES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still, for Gaines, the issue has always been protecting female athletes, both from unfair competition and from feeling violated in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see a male with male parts watching you undress, it was like I thought I was missing something,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought, am I, like not grasping something? Why is no one talking about this? Why is the coach not sticking up for us? We did not give our consent for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA worked so hard to promote Thomas that after the two tied last year, she said officials gave the only fifth-place trophy to Thomas, promising to send one in the mail to Gaines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was at this moment that I realized not only were we being forced to compete against a man, we were being forced to change in a locker room with a man,\u201d Gaines said. \u201cWe were being sidelined to validate the feelings and the identity of a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it just felt like we were reduced to like a photo op,\u201d she continued. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of when I took it upon myself to really become public with my stance.\u201d\u00a0Gaines said she hears regularly from young female athletes and their parents who are turning their backs on girls\u2019 sports out of fear they will be put in the same position Gaines was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want their kid competing [against boys] in sports like volleyball or softball or different contact-type stuff,\u201d Gaines. \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous. And they\u2019re worried about their kids\u2019 safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former college swimming star\u00a0Riley Gaines made some explosive allegations about the private proclivities of her transgender pool nemesis Lia Thomas\u00a0in a Wednesday interview with Crain &amp; Co. Gaines, the former University of Kentucky All-American who tied Thomas for fifth place in last year\u2019s NCAA 200-meter championship, has been outspoken on her opposition to biological women &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":1848345,"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":[11429,4856,18741,16281,3727,17380,18195,9522,5587,16585,10215],"class_list":["post-1848342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-champ","tag-claims","tag-co","tag-crain","tag-drops","tag-gaines","tag-lia","tag-riley","tag-shocking","tag-swim","tag-thomas"],"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\/1848342","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\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}