{"id":2199356,"date":"2024-03-14T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:28:07","slug":"riley-gaines-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Gaines and Fellow College Athletes File Lawsuit Against NCAA Over Men Participating in Women&#8217;s Competitions"},"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\">32<\/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-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports%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=2199356&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>Title\u2063 IX Challenge: The Battle Over Athletic\u2062 Fairness<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/riley-gaines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riley Gaines<\/a>, alongside a group of\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ncaa-all-american-swimmer-riley-gaines-calls-out-the-ncaa-says-men-competing-in-womens-sports-is-a-mockery\/\" title=\"NCAA All-American Swimmer Riley Gaines Calls Out the NCAA, Says Men Competing in Women\u2019s Sports Is \u201cA Mockery\u201d\">collegiate female athletes<\/a>, has taken\u200d a bold stand against the NCAA with a lawsuit targeting the association&#8217;s policy that permits men\u2064 to compete in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines, an accomplished swimmer from \u200bthe University of\u2063 Kentucky, together with her fellow\u200d athletes, asserts that this policy has \u2062not only invaded their privacy but also snatched away valuable opportunities from them. The tipping point was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaines&#8217; competition<\/a> against Lia Thomas, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/martial-artists-force-change-after-transgender-athletes-dominate-womens-grappling-tournament\/\" title=\"Martial artists demand action as transgender athletes excel in women's grappling event.\">biological male\u2063 identifying<\/a> as female,\u2063 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ashli-babbitts-family-sues-u-s-govt-for-30-million\/\" title=\"Ashli Babbitt's family seeks M in lawsuit against U.S. Govt\">raised significant controversy<\/a> \u2062during the NCAA&#8217;s 2022 Division I Women\u2019s Swimming\u2064 Championships. This dispute \u2062extended\u2062 beyond the pool as Gaines reported discomfort \u200cover sharing a locker room with\u2063 Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NCAA&#8217;s actions redefine Title IX&#8217;s protection\u200b for women, effectively reducing womanhood to a testosterone level. They&#8217;ve allowed men on women teams and compromised \u200bthe sanctity of female locker room spaces,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16CIcxSu2DvL1uPYfY8DcLWy90klGRK74\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> alleges, portraying a reality where female athletes face constitutional \u2064privacy\u2062 breaches.<\/p>\n<h3>A Robust Legal Assertion<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8It&#8217;s official!\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m suing the NCAA\u2062 with 15 other collegiate athletes over lost titles, \u200drecords, &#038; roster \u200bspots \u200bdue to men \u2064in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA clearly breaches Title IX. It&#8217;s time for action.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1768335572798456179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The legal battle, unfolding in the U.S. District Court for\u200c the Northern District of Georgia, accuses the NCAA and several Georgia universities \u200bof undermining \u2062Title IX and the\u200c 14th Amendment&#8217;s Equal Protection clause.\u200c Furthermore, the\u200b lawsuit \u2063suggests that the NCAA&#8217;s speech codes silence any opposition as &#8220;transphobic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs, including renowned athletes like Reka Gyorgy and Kylee Alons, span a range of sports, from swimming to \u200ctrack and volleyball. They stand united in their claim of injustice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the contention:<\/strong> The athletes rebuke the NCAA for its ideologically driven guidelines that side-step scientific\u2064 considerations regarding transgender athletes in sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NCAA&#8217;s policies pushed by ideology, not empirical science, confront a counterargument: testosterone \u200csuppression does not eliminate biological sex differences,&#8221; the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get engaged with the topic:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE \u2063APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its core, the lawsuit\u2062 argues that\u2064 women\u2062 athletes are unfairly disadvantaged by\u200d the NCAA&#8217;s progressive policy choices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NCAA&#8217;s current policies not only defy Title\u200d IX&#8217;s spirit\u200d of equal sports opportunities but also ignore the wealth of\u200c scientific evidence proving these policies disadvantage women,&#8221; the complaint emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are demanding that all awards and records\u2063 obtained by men competing in women&#8217;s categories be revoked and that the NCAA revises its inclusion policies to ensure fairness in\u2063 women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Gaines, joined by other female athletes, is suing the NCAA for policies permitting men to compete in women&#8217;s sports, claiming it infringes on their rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2199357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1239310309.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1239310309.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199356","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}