CPAC 2023: Lia Thomas competitor Riley Gaines blasts the ‘systemic eradication of women’

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CPAC 2023: Lia Thomas competitor Riley Gaines blasts the ‘systemic eradication of women’
Transgender Issues
CPAC 2023: Lia Thomas competitor Riley Gaines blasts the ‘systemic eradication of women’
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Riley Gaines (left) is calling upon the NCAA to take greater action to protect women’s sports against biological males who identify as transgender females, such as University of Pennsylvaniaswimmer Lia Thomas (right).

OXON HILL, Maryland — Former University of
Kentucky
swimmer
Riley Gaines
expressed optimism Friday that the push to accept
gender theory and transgender
ideology has gone too far and will be met with widespread backlash.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Gaines, who gained notoriety last year after tying a biologically male swimmer, Lia Thomas, at the NCAA swimming championships, said she believed “the pendulum has swung too far.”


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“There’s this systemic eradication of women that is being attempted by the Left, and it’s more than sports,” Gaines, a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum, said. “They’re changing definitions. They’re changing terms that are specific to women. … These large organizations and large companies, these woke companies, continually make the claims that men make the best women.”

“But I am hopeful because I think people are seeing this for what it is,” she added.

The former University of Kentucky swimmer spoke on a panel Friday alongside Chloe Cole, who attempted to transition to a male identity while a minor before later detransitioning. The panel was moderated by American Principles Project President Terry Schilling.

“Man and woman is the sheer essence of humanity, and these people are trying to blur that line,” Gaines said on the panel. “I don’t know if I was just naive before or if this is something that has just been totally sprung on us, but it’s an attack on women.”


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Gaines told the Washington Examiner that she felt compelled to speak out because so many other women are afraid of losing their jobs or other consequences if they challenge the idea that biological males who identify as women can compete in women’s sports.

“It finally hit me that we as female athletes, if we aren’t willing to stick up for ourselves, how can we expect someone else to?” Gaines said. “I just got married, and I can only hope to bring a daughter into this world one day, and I can’t imagine not fighting for her rights … that’s truthfully what inspired me and compelled me to use my voice.”

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