{"id":1916703,"date":"2023-04-19T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-skewers-lia-thomas-over-trans-swimmers-latest-heartbreaking-claim\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:30:15","slug":"riley-gaines-skewers-lia-thomas-over-trans-swimmers-latest-heartbreaking-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-skewers-lia-thomas-over-trans-swimmers-latest-heartbreaking-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Gaines Skewers Lia Thomas Over Trans Swimmer\u2019s Latest \u2018Heartbreaking\u2019 Claim"},"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\">22<\/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-skewers-lia-thomas-over-trans-swimmers-latest-heartbreaking-claim%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=1916703&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 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former All-American swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.bentkey.internal\/news\/riley-gaines-rips-megan-rapinoe-for-attacking-bill-protecting-womens-sports-hank-berrien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley Gaines<\/a> lashed out at rival <a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.bentkey.internal\/news\/the-patriarchy-strikes-again-social-media-explodes-over-upenn-move-to-elevate-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-amanda-prestigiacomo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lia Thomas<\/a> after the transgender-identifying athlete complained that \u201ctrans kids lose out on opportunities\u201d because many states and athletic bodies have barred biological males from competing against females.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an appearance on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.bentkey.internal\/news\/piers-morgan-torches-democrat-katie-porter-over-remarks-about-riley-gaines-daily-wire-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/a>,\u201d Gaines, a former University of Kentucky star, cited the words of Thomas, who competed for the University of Pennsylvania men\u2019s team before switching to the women\u2019s team. Gaines, who has become increasingly outspoken in the cause for protecting female athletes from unfair competition, said it is men posing as women who are stealing opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLia Thomas [was] quoted saying, you know, \u2018It breaks my heart to see trans kids lose out on opportunities,\u201d Gaines told Morgan. \u201cReplace that with word \u2018woman.\u2019 Does it still break Thomas\u2019s heart to see women lose out on opportunities? Because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas last year tied Gaines for fifth-place in the NCAA finals of the\u00a0women\u2019s 200-meter race, but it was Thomas who was initially awarded the medal. Gaines believes that decision was part of the NCAA\u2019s effort to promote Thomas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrom my experience competing against Lia Thomas at the national championships, I watched first-hand women lose out on opportunities,\u201d Gaines said. \u201cI watched women not become All-Americans, missing that eighth and 16th place by one place because they were displaced by a male. This, of course, goes against everything that Title IX was created to protect and now we have the Biden administration, the people in the White House, who are actively working to rewrite Title IX.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Lia Thomas said &#8216;it breaks my heart to see trans kids lose out on opportunities&#8217;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Replace that with the word &#8216;woman&#8217;. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines speaks out about her former swimming competitor&#8217;s comments on trans inclusion in sports.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Riley_Gaines_<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@piersmorgan<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TalkTV<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KIPAfarafX\">pic.twitter.com\/KIPAfarafX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored\/status\/1648418886482550786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX states: \u201cNo person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Rep. Katie Porter, (D-CA), criticized Gaines, claiming she has voiced her strong opinions about men competing against women in order to \u201cget likes and clicks,\u201d Gaines fired back, \u00a0\u201cYou just can\u2019t help but laugh \u2026 it\u2019s ironic. It\u2019s always women fighting against women\u2019s sex-protected spaces and rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m speaking for every female athlete, not just myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m done competing. This isn\u2019t about me. But I know what\u2019s at stake if someone doesn\u2019t use their voice. I have a younger sister. I just got married. I can only hope one day that I have a daughter and I can\u2019t imagine being in this position and not fighting for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaines was recently mobbed by transgender activists and forced to shelter in a locked room for hours when she visited San Francisco State University to advocate for the rights of female athletes. Video on social media showed Gaines being hustled to safety by police officers as a mob of radical transgender activists followed her, shouting \u201cTrans rights are human rights!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Championing the cause of protecting female athletes has cost Gaines, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNothing has been for personal advancement,\u201d she told Morgan. \u201cNothing has been for monetary value for me. I was supposed to be in dental school this year. So, by no means did I even feel equipped to do what I\u2019m doing. This is not about me, and hearing her say that showed her true ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaines has become the face of a movement, and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/riley-gaines-accuses-megan-rapinoe-virtue-signaling-protection-girls-women-sports-act\">laced into<\/a>\u00a0U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe for slamming H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March, Rapinoe tweeted, \u201cToday, politicians in DC are claiming to \u2018protect women\u2019s sports\u2019 by pushing a trans &#038; intersex sports ban. Call your Congressional rep today to say women\u2019s sports need protection from unequal pay, sexual abuse &#038; lack of resources, NOT from trans kids.\u201d She followed by signing a letter published Monday that condemned the legislation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaines accused Rapinoe of \u201cvirtue signaling,\u201d on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI can respect opinions that differ from my own and everyone is entitled to think\/speak independently, but I can\u2019t help but think Megan Rapinoe would genuinely shiv any male who tried to take her spot on the US Women\u2019s National Team,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/riley-gaines-accuses-megan-rapinoe-virtue-signaling-protection-girls-women-sports-act\">according<\/a>\u00a0to Fox News. Gaines later deleted the tweets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In late March, Gaines ripped ESPN for their \u201cCelebrating Women\u2019s History Month\u201d segment in which they lauded Lia Thomas, a biological male, \u00a0for becoming \u201cthe first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I Championship by winning the 500 Freestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaines tweeted, \u201cLia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. \u2026 The @ncaa is responsible. If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You\u2019re spineless @espn #boycottESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ncaa<\/a> is responsible. <\/p>\n<p>If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You&#8217;re spineless <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@espn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/boycottESPN?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#boycottESPN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DF3n5RWsmV\">https:\/\/t.co\/DF3n5RWsmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1640025392965644294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former All-American swimmer Riley Gaines lashed out at rival Lia Thomas after the transgender-identifying athlete complained that \u201ctrans kids lose out on opportunities\u201d because many states and athletic bodies have barred biological males from competing against females. In an appearance on \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored,\u201d Gaines, a former University of Kentucky star, cited the words of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1916704,"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":[4893,17380,12437,18195,9522,15581,18425,10215,7037],"class_list":["post-1916703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-claim","tag-gaines","tag-heartbreaking","tag-lia","tag-riley","tag-skewers","tag-swimmers","tag-thomas","tag-trans"],"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\/1916703","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=1916703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}