BREAKINGRiley Gaines Triumphs In Fierce Legal Battle Against Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports

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Riley Gaines is never going to stop her fight against transgender athletes being in women’s sports.

The former swimmer is used to going viral online since she has taken a hard stance against transgender athletes competing against women.

Gaines, a former University of Kentucky standout, scored a victory earlier this year when the University of Pennsylvania agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams. The Ivy League school was under fire in 2022 because of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. She set several records while on the women’s team.

Now she has scored a legal victory as well.

The Riley Gaines v. NCAA lawsuit took a major step forward when U.S. District Judge Tiffany Johnson partially denied the NCAA’s dismissal motion, per Outkick. The former collegiate swimmer is leading a group of 19 current and former female athletes in a lawsuit against the NCAA.

In 2024, athletes sued in a Georgia federal district court. In February, the NCAA adopted a new transgender policy that prohibits student-athletes assigned male at birth from competing on women’s teams.

That move came after President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning transgender athletes. He even mocked transgender athletes during a University of Alabama graduation speech, referring to them as ‘a transitions person.’

Riley Gaines Has Had Enough of Transgender Athletes Like Lia Thomas in Women’s Sports

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Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer and outspoken conservative activist, scored a major legal victory in her ongoing fight to prevent biological men from competing in women’s sports.

She and other athletes’ lawsuit challenges NCAA policies that allowed transgender athletes to compete in women’s competitions.

Gaines had to compete against Lia Thomas while in college. Thomas is a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer who drew harsh criticism for her success as the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I championship in 2022.

Despite everything going against her, Lia Thomas, who is biologically male, said, “I am going to keep fighting as much as I am able to,” Thomas declared.

Riley Gaines and Lia Thomas will be forever linked as the faces of the controversy surrounding transgender athletes in women’s sports.