{"id":1926976,"date":"2023-05-08T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-should-boycott-sports-to-shut-out-biological-males-competing-as-transgender-activist-says\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:13:11","slug":"female-athletes-should-boycott-sports-to-shut-out-biological-males-competing-as-transgender-activist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-should-boycott-sports-to-shut-out-biological-males-competing-as-transgender-activist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist suggests female athletes boycott sports to prevent transgender biological males from competing."},"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\">26<\/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-athletes-should-boycott-sports-to-shut-out-biological-males-competing-as-transgender-activist-says%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=1926976&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--><h2>Former Swimmer Calls for Boycotts Against Transgender Athletes<\/h2>\n<h3>Female Swimmers Should Boycott, Says Riley Gaines<\/h3>\n<p>Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines has called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-swimmer-katie-ledecky-dominates-at-tokyo-games-confirms-ambitions-for-the-paris-games-in-2024\/\" title=\"American swimmer Katie Ledecky dominates at Tokyo Games, confirms ambitions for the Paris Games in 2024\">female swimmers<\/a> to boycott races against biological men, such as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. Speaking at the \u201cOur Spaces\/Our Sports: Women Hold the Line\u201d event in Nashville, Gaines said that boycotting is an effective way to make change. Gaines began speaking about the need to keep biological males from competing in female sports after Lia Thomas began leaving top female swimmers in his wake at NCAA events. <\/p>\n<h3>Transgenderism Poses a Threat to Women\u2019s Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Activists Amy Sousa and Kay Yang also spoke at the event about the threat transgenderism poses against women and women\u2019s rights. Gaines shared her experience of discovering that the NCAA was making her swim against a man. She and other swimmers didn\u2019t boycott the first time because it took them off guard. She decided to swim, but not step up to the podium to accept an award if she finished at or near the top. <\/p>\n<h3>The Sacrifices of a Champion<\/h3>\n<p>For Gaines, racing against Thomas marked a strange end to a life of competitive swimming that started when she was five. By the time she reached college, she was spending six hours swimming every day. This life-altering dedication is normal for top swimmers, Gaines said. The pool of women living this lifestyle is so small that top swimmers know each other by name. <\/p>\n<h3>A Shocking Discovery<\/h3>\n<p>When Thomas started breaking records with all the advantages of male puberty, Gaines said she was shocked that a new swimmer could compete with athletes who had trained extensively for years. Then she discovered Thomas was a man. He\u2019d been a mediocre athlete in men\u2019s sports, Gaines said. But in women\u2019s sports, he was a prodigy. Thomas dominated every event from the 100-meter swim to the mile. <\/p>\n<h3>No Women\u2019s Spaces<\/h3>\n<p>Gaines and other female swimmers had to share a locker room with Thomas. To get into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athletes-should-boycott-sports-to-shut-out-biological-males-competing-as-transgender-activist-says\/\" title=\"Activist suggests female athletes boycott sports to prevent transgender biological males from competing.\">extra-tight hydrodynamic swimsuits<\/a>, professional swimmers have to get naked, then slowly pull the swimsuit over every roll of skin, Gaines said. The process can take as long as 15 minutes, she said. At the NCAA finals, Gaines noticed the locker room had fallen silent. She turned around to see Thomas, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lia-thomas-teammate-locker-room-definitely-awkward-because-thomas-male-genitalia-exposed\/\" title=\"Lia Thomas Teammate: Locker Room \u2018Definitely Awkward\u2019 Because Thomas\u2019 Male Genitalia Exposed\">male genitalia exposed<\/a>, watching her fellow athletes strip to put on suits. <\/p>\n<h3>Grooming<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s a word for the transgender push for men who say they are women to enter women\u2019s spaces, said Sousa, a psychologist. That word is \u201cgrooming.\u201d \u201cGrooming is the use of charm to normalize and desensitize against increasing boundary violations over time,\u201d Sousa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014If female swimmers all had boycotted, rather than race against a biological man, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas never would have entered the pool, says former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines. \u201cBoycott\u2014if we can orchestrate that in any capacity\u2014that\u2019s an effective way to make change,\u201d Gaines said at an event in Nashville, Tennessee on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":1926977,"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":[543],"tags":[5327,4690,11826,6812,9990,4925,17213,5495,3847,4774,4019],"class_list":["post-1926976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-activist","tag-athletes","tag-biological","tag-boycott","tag-competing","tag-female","tag-males","tag-prevent","tag-sports","tag-suggests","tag-transgender"],"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\/1926976","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}