{"id":2067907,"date":"2023-10-15T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-activists-threw-everything-they-had-at-riley-gaines-but-she-has-one-brutal-message-for-the-men-in-dresses\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:53:10","slug":"trans-activists-threw-everything-they-had-at-riley-gaines-but-she-has-one-brutal-message-for-the-men-in-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-activists-threw-everything-they-had-at-riley-gaines-but-she-has-one-brutal-message-for-the-men-in-dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans activists targeted Riley Gaines relentlessly, but she has a powerful message for those who identify as &#8216;men in dresses&#8217;."},"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\">40<\/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%2Ftrans-activists-threw-everything-they-had-at-riley-gaines-but-she-has-one-brutal-message-for-the-men-in-dresses%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=2067907&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>Trans Activists Threw Everything They \u200bHad at Riley Gaines, But She Has One Brutal Message for the &#8216;Men in Dresses&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s never easy fighting against societal \u200ctides. \u200dWhether you want to talk \u200dabout women\u2019s \u2062suffrage, ending segregation, or abolishing\u2064 slavery, fighting the good \u2063fight is exhausting and\u200d draining. And it can require immense sacrifice. Look no \u200dfurther than the struggles of Susan \u200cB. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln in their respective quests \u2063to \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d And while Anthony,\u2062 King, and Lincoln are fondly remembered by history books now, at the time \u2063of their\u200c deaths they could not have known how their efforts would be\u2064 seen in the future. King and Lincoln \u2064lost their lives for their beliefs.\u2062 Anthony died in 1906, more than\u200c a decade before \u200dthe\u2064 19th Amendment guaranteed women the\u200d right to vote. Those sorts of doubts would cripple lesser people, but those three are clearly cut from a different historical cloth.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s \u200bactivist Riley Gaines appears to be made of similar stuff. Gaines, for the\u200c unfamiliar, was a decorated University of Kentucky swimmer whose post-athletic \u200dcareer has found her fighting ferociously for women\u2019s rights \u2014 namely\u200c their right to compete against other, actual women \u2064on a competitive athletic field. She gained particular \u200dfame \u2014 notoriety, for progressives \u2014 for speaking up\u200d against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who was showered with all manner of undeserved\u200c praise. Why is it undeserved? Because Thomas was\u200c a positively unremarkable swimmer when he was known as \u201cWill Thomas,\u201d only to turn into one of the most dominant swimmers in women\u2019s history as \u201cLia\u201d (by\u2064 the\u2063 numbers, at least). But while the typical leftist shills lauded Thomas for his \u201cbravery\u201d\u200d or whatever, Gaines rightfully blasted Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines\u2019 determination to not acquiesce to leftist lunacy made her a very public\u2063 enemy, however, as she\u200c quickly became a target for all\u2062 manner of crazed leftists. Accusations\u200c of \u201ctransphobia\u201d and \u2064bigotry were swiftly hurled at Gaines as she\u200b refused to acknowledge \u2062Thomas, as were a number \u2064of far more \u200bdeplorable insults\u200d \u2014 \u200dbut the former Kentucky Wildcat appears unbothered by it all.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines spoke to OutKick\u2019s Charly Arnolt for the \u201cOutKick \u2064The\u200c Morning with \u2062Charly Arnolt\u201d podcast, \u200band opened up\u2063 a bit about her \u2062life behind the scenes of activism and attacks from her critics.<\/p>\n<h3>The most fascinating\u200b part of the\u200d interview came \u2063about the 12:30 mark, when Arnolt, a former WWE personality, asked Gaines about the cascade of derogatory remarks and insults Gaines has \u200bto endure for the \u2063simple crime of believing \u2063men are men and women are women.<\/h3>\n<p>Arnolt pointed out the\u200c idiocy of Gaines\u2019\u2064 critics\u200b who claim that her complaints about men in women\u2019s sports are\u2063 because she \u201ccan\u2019t swim\u201d by noting that Gaines won at the highest level of swimming short of the Olympics. \u201cDo they hear themselves and how\u200d dumb they\u200d sound?\u201d Arnolt\u2063 asked. \u201cA stupid insult,\u201d Gaines said with a chuckle. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I \u200dsay it doesn\u2019t bother me.\u201d Gaines then opened up that when she first started becoming an activist,\u2062 those types \u2064of snide remarks actually did start weighing on her. But she swiftly realized that those insults were little more than childish \u201cname-calling,\u201d and she has since \u2064grown a new layer of thick skin to deal with her more deranged \u2063critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s people calling you\u2026 \u200dThey\u2019ll say my hair\u200b is extensions,\u201d Gaines said, as an example \u200cof some of the more\u2062 nonsensical insults she has to deal with. \u201cOK, this is my real hair. That\u2019s stupid. \u201cThey\u2019ll\u200b say \u2062I\u2019m ugly. They\u2019ll \u2063say, \u2018Maybe you should\u2019ve \u2063just\u200d trained harder.\u2019 They\u2019ll say, \u2018you\u2019re transphobic.\u2019 All these\u200d names. \u201cAnd \u200dlike I said, at first, it sucked. But once you can \u2063notice the theme, they can\u2019t dissuade from your argument using facts, using common sense, logic, reasoning, science\u2026 What happened\u2064 to \u2018follow the\u200c science\u2019\u2026\u200b \u201cAnd when they can\u2019t dissuade from your argument using those things, they resort\u2062 to name-calling, which, again, is what we do in fourth grade.\u2063 It just doesn\u2019t hurt my feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaines and \u200bArnolt then discussed one particularly harrowing incident where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-activists-threw-everything-they-had-at-riley-gaines-but-she-has-one-brutal-message-for-the-men-in-dresses\/\" title=\"Trans activists targeted Riley Gaines relentlessly, but she has a powerful message for those who identify as 'men in dresses'.\">pro-transgender activists stopped<\/a> trying to hurt her feelings \u2014 and just tried to hurt her. When Gaines spoke \u2064at San Francisco State University in April, an angry mob actually forced the athlete to barricade herself in a room as they genuinely seemed to be out\u200c for blood. Gaines\u200c was actually struck by one of the attackers, whom she described to her husband at the time as a \u201cguy in a dress.\u201d Gaines had a \u200dsimple\u200c response to those activists who so clearly crossed \u200ca \u200cline into physical violence:\u200d Bring it on.\u2063 \u201cIn those hours [while being barricaded in], listening to what they were chanting, \u200dwhat they wanted to do to \u200bme, how they were going to injure \u200dme, and kill me, and hurt me, and all those\u200d different things \u2026 \u200dI did fear for my life,\u201d Gaines\u200c said about the 15:45 mark. But she quickly added: \u201cBut, truthfully, their punches don\u2019t hurt that bad, which is pretty telling. Men in dresses, I\u2019m sorry, your punches just don\u2019t hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no telling what\u2019s next in Gaines\u2019 crusade to protect\u200d women\u2019s sports from creepy men, but two things are crystal clear:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Like \u2063all of those who stand for something\u200b they genuinely believe in, Gaines is likely gaining as many critics and haters\u200d as she is fans.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s not afraid of \u2064that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Good \u2062for Riley Gaines. \u2062Conservatism could use more thick-skinned leaders with strong moral compasses.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does\u2064 Riley Gaines believe change can be achieved in women&#8217;s sports<\/h2>\n<p><span>  My muscles are fake, they&#8217;ll say I&#8217;m not a true woman, they&#8217;ll say I&#8217;m just jealous. They come up with all these \u2064ridiculous things, but it doesn&#8217;t bother me anymore. I know who I am and what I \u200bstand for, and their insults can&#8217;t\u200c change that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaines went on to\u200c explain that her strong belief \u200bin biological differences \u200dbetween\u2062 men and women is rooted in science. \u2063She emphasized that while she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-tells-riley-gaines-transgender-people-ought-to-be-protected-and-respected\/\" title=\"Bill Maher supports protecting and respecting transgender individuals.\">supports transgender rights<\/a> and equality, she does not believe that biological males \u200dshould be allowed to compete against biological females in sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been called a transphobe\u200c and a bigot for speaking out against this, but \u200dit&#8217;s not about hate or\u2064 discrimination. \u2062It&#8217;s about fairness and\u200b preserving the integrity of women&#8217;s\u200c sports,&#8221; Gaines \u2064asserted. &#8220;There are\u200c inherent physiological advantages that men have over women, and disregarding those differences undermines the achievements and opportunities for women in athletics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaines also expressed her concern for the next generation of female athletes. She fears that if \u200dthe current trend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-blasted-for-caving-to-woke-mob-editing-hurtful-language-out-of-op-ed-on-trans-athletes\/\" title=\"USA Today Blasted For Caving To \u2018Woke Mob,\u2019 Editing \u2018Hurtful\u2019 Language Out Of Op-Ed On Trans Athletes\">allowing transgender females<\/a> to compete against cisgender females continues, \u2064it will discourage young\u200d girls from participating in sports altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a young girl sees that she has to compete against someone who has a biological advantage, she \u2063might feel discouraged and think,\u200c &#8216;Why even\u200b bother? I&#8217;ll never have a fair chance,'&#8221; Gaines\u2062 explained. &#8220;That&#8217;s not\u200b the message we should be sending to our future female athletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the \u2064backlash and\u200c personal attacks she has faced, Gaines remains committed to advocating for fairness in women&#8217;s sports. She believes that by speaking up and raising awareness about this issue, change can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I&#8217;m not alone in this fight. There are many others who share my concerns and are standing up for what they\u2064 believe in,&#8221; Gaines said. &#8220;We may face adversity, but that only strengthens\u2064 our resolve. We will continue to \u200bpush for policies that\u200c protect the integrity of women&#8217;s sports and ensure a level playing\u200b field for all \u200dathletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Riley Gaines has shown immense courage and resilience in the face of adversity. As a vocal advocate for fair competition in women&#8217;s sports, she has faced intense backlash and personal attacks. However, she remains steadfast\u200b in her \u200dbelief that biological differences matter in sports\u200b and that \u200cwomen deserve a fair chance\u2064 to excel in their athletic pursuits. By speaking out and sharing her experiences, Gaines is igniting a much-needed conversation about the importance of preserving the\u200c integrity of women&#8217;s\u200c sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting societal tides is never easy. Be it women&#8217;s suffrage, ending segregation, or abolishing slavery, the battle is draining and demanding. Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln exemplify the immense sacrifices made in their quests for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2067908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2067907","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\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}