{"id":1905609,"date":"2023-03-27T19:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimmer-riley-gaines-rebuttals-espn-for-lia-thomas-womens-history-month-segment\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:29:18","slug":"swimmer-riley-gaines-rebuttals-espn-for-lia-thomas-womens-history-month-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimmer-riley-gaines-rebuttals-espn-for-lia-thomas-womens-history-month-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer Riley Gaines rebuttals ESPN for Lia Thomas\u2019 Women\u2019s History Month segment"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fswimmer-riley-gaines-rebuttals-espn-for-lia-thomas-womens-history-month-segment%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=1905609&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--><p> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On January 22, 2022, Lia Thomas, a transgender women, competes against Harvard University in an Ivy League swimming meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to finish the 200-yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas was the event&#8217;s top finisher. ( JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/ AFP via Getty Images ) ( Photo by Joseph Prezioso \/ AFP )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Geraldyn Berry, OAN<br \/>UPDATED 4:22 P- March 27, 2023, Monday<\/p>\n<p>A former national champion college sprinter who criticized ESPN for including transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in its Women&#8217;s History Month application referred to the system as&#8221; cowardly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\"><script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); }); <\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas is not a strong, courageous women who has achieved regional fame. He is a haughty, dishonest lie who snatched the national title away from an honorable, talented woman. The @ college is in charge.<\/p>\n<p>I did leave ESPN if I were a person working there. You lack spines, @ espn # boycottESPNhttps: \/\/ t. co \/ DF3n5RWsmV<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines(@ Riley_ Gaines) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1640025392965644294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Swimmer Riley Gaines criticized ESPN, calling the network&#8221; spineless&#8221; and tweeting the hashtag # BoycottESPN for including the transgender athlete. She was dubbed&#8221; one of the most decorated swimmers in program history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Gaines remarked,&#8221; Lia Thomas has displayed intense selfishness, a serious lack of awareness, and just an absolute disregard for women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; participation in women&#8217;s to swimming, according to Gaines, is indicative of a bigger economic problem. If something&#8221; can&#8217;t recognize what a woman is ,&#8221; they are not being highly aware.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines competed in the NCAA championships in March 2022 against Lia Thomas, a transgender student at the University of Pennsylvania. Till 2019, Thomas, who competed in the men&#8217;s department, claimed that she&#8221; felt like she was going into the competition with her hands tied behind her again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaines has been a leader in women&#8217;s sports, promoting equitable healing and preventing transgender individuals from competing against biological women at the highest level. At the NCAA championships earlier years, Gaines and the former Penn diver tied for third place. There was indignation all over the country over Thomas&#8217;s pool performance.<\/p>\n<p>The trans sportsman, who was born in Texas, competed in men&#8217;s swimming up until he started his shift in May 2019. In December 2021, she made her debut in female events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The college sniper, according to Nashville Police Chief John Drake, is 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Hale, according to Drake, identified as trans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Dan Patrick, the deputy governor of Texas, claims that the state is prepared for change. Daniel Baldwin of One America has more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Three students and three adult, including the gunman, are killed in a Christian college shooting, according to OAN Newsroom12:45 PM on Monday, March 27, 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>At the K &#8211; 6th grade Covenant School in Tennessee on Monday, a 28-year-old woman gunman killed three staff members and three children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>TikTok is a&#8230;, according to Stephen Nellis RUTHERFORD, California( Reuters )- The security department of the U.S. National Security Agency announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS( Reuters )- EU police force Europol issued a warning on Monday about the potential abuse of chatbots with artificial intelligence ( AI)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>At least 50 U.S. government employees stationed in ten different nations were targeted with professional hackers equipment, according to Christopher B. WASHINGTON( Reuters)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>( Reuters )- The social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk and some portions of Twitter Inc. &#8216; s source code have both been leaked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200 yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. \u2013 Thomas placed first in the event. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso \/ AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN Geraldyn BerryUPDATED 4:22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":1905611,"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":[542],"tags":[5851,17380,4919,18195,7666,22876,9522,17316,13922,10215,4694],"class_list":["post-1905609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-espn","tag-gaines","tag-history","tag-lia","tag-month","tag-rebuttals","tag-riley","tag-segment","tag-swimmer","tag-thomas","tag-womens"],"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\/1905609","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\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}