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NextImg:Riley Gaines calls out hypocrisy of Rapinoe and Griner's support of men in women's sports


Former championship swimmer turned women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines is calling out fellow female athletes for “undermining their fight.”

While appearing on Fox News Tonight, Gaines blasted WNBA star Brittney Griner, professional soccer player Megan Rapinoe, and Title IX advocate Billie Jean King for supporting biological males who identify as females’ participation in women’s sports.


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“It doesn’t make any sense, and this is something that’s becoming a trend,” Gaines said. “All of these women who fought for women’s rights, equal opportunity, equal access, equal resources, equal pay — they are now undermining their fight. They are actively fighting to take away those opportunities from other women.”

Gaines called on additional athletes, parents, and medical professionals not to be afraid to speak out in support of protecting women’s sports and private spaces.

“We need parents, we need female athletes, medical professionals, coaches, male athletes,” Gaines said. “We need everyone on board here.”

“I get messages all the time from people within the LGBTQ community, specifically the LGB community, who are so frustrated by this,” she continued. “These are people who call themselves lifelong liberals, yet they see the problem, they see the harm that women face when we’re allowing males into our spaces, into our sports, into our locker rooms — taking away our opportunities.”

Gaines recognized fear is silencing people.

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“They don’t want to be called transphobic, homophobic, any kind of name, any kind of label that I get thrown at me all the time,” Gaines said. “Rather they stay quiet, but that’s exactly how we’ve gotten here.”

“It’s lunacy, but staying quiet — that’s exactly how we’ve reached this point,” she reiterated.