Riley Gaines spoke up for women and girls today at a Senate hearing. Riley Gaines has been a victim of a fully-equipped male parading around in her locker room and competing with her in swim meets. She tied with Lia Thomas in the end, but they only had one award and gave it to Thomas. This is absurd.
Ms. Gaines was brilliant during the hearing.
She addressed the core issue.
“In addition to being forced to give up our awards and our titles and our opportunities, the NCAA forced me and my female swimmers to swim, to share a locker room with Thomas, a six-foot-four, 22-year-old male equipped with and exposing male genitalia.
“Let me be clear about this. We were not forewarned we would be sharing a locker room. No one asked for our consent, and we did not give our consent. And I’ll, I’ll set the scene, as swimming locker room is not a place of modesty You’re undressing. You’re fully exposed, and we were forced to take off our swimsuits in front of a man who was doing the exact same thing. If nothing else, I truly hope you can see this is a violation of our right to privacy and how some of us have felt uncomfortable, embarrassed, and even traumatized by this experience.”
.@Riley_Gaines_: The NCAA forced “female swimmers to share a locker room with [Lia] Thomas, a 6’4″, 22 year old male equipped with and exposing male genitalia… We were forced to take off our swimsuit in front of a man.” pic.twitter.com/kQEg9sI3uz
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 21, 2023
Riley Defines Feminism for Those Who Think It Means Men Who Think They’re Women
Senator Hawley: “Under the guise of feminism, they, meaning you, are using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs, meaning you, advocating for women. Women’s rights is actually just a cover for transphobia. Do you want to respond to that?”
Riley Gaines: “Feminism is not a fluid term. The original and the meaning of what it means to be a feminist is to uphold, respect, honor, embrace, and celebrate women on our own physical ceilings, our own uniqueness. That term has not changed, and what this really is, is a male mansplaining what it is to be a feminist, which I honestly think is pretty ironic, and it’s something we’ve seen before.”
REAL FEMINISM: At a Wednesday Senate hearing, Former NCAA swimmer @Riley_Gaines_ punched back at recent criticism from Lia Thomas.
“What this really is, is a male mansplaining what it is to be a feminist.” https://t.co/yQTsmPybqt pic.twitter.com/dZ9T8cYSN8
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) June 21, 2023
Sen. Kennedy questioned the Democrat witness, who made no sense whatsoever. The witness didn’t know what she was talking about. She needs to take a biology course.
Sen. Kennedy: “Do males have an advantage over females biologically in sports?”
Kelley Robinson: “Again I’m not a physician and I, I can’t speak to that.”
Sen. Kennedy: “What’s your real-world experience.”
Kelley Robinson: “It depends. I mean there are some people who are born male that I’m faster than if I were to Sprint against them, and some that I’m not. Some males are taller than some women, and some are shorter…
Sen. Kennedy: “You don’t think a biological male has a physical advantage in sports over a biological female?”
Kelley Robinson: “Not as a definitive statement.”
Sen. Kennedy: “Give me an example, well, no, I, I don’t think…how many female members of the NBA do you see?
Kelley Robinson: “Well, I can say that you know, there’s been this news article about men that think that they could beat Serena Williams in tennis, right? That they think that they could actually score a point on her, and it’s just not the case. She is stronger than them.”
Sen. Kennedy: “What’s your experience been, male or female?
Riley Gaines: “Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player, which their phenoms for women. My experience, my husband swam at the University of Kentucky as well. In terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking, I was a much better swimmer than him. He could kick my butt any day of the week without trying.
Sen. Kennedy: “OK, I just think Miss Robinson, I’m just, I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from. I think you lose a lot of credibility when you don’t concede a biological male has a physical advantage over a biological female….”
Riley Gaines and Senator Kennedy DESTROY woke DUNCE (not worthy of me mentioning her name)🤪 pic.twitter.com/xYnNUmUyrB
— 🇺🇸 ʟᴇғᴛ ᴄᴏᴀˢᴛ ᴠᴀɢʀᴀɴᴛ 🇺🇸 (@Baklava_USA) June 21, 2023
Dick Durbin, from the party of caring for women, wants women to share bathrooms and locker rooms with men. He criticized Riley Gaines rhetoric and how she makes trans feel.
Riley Gaines confronted Sen. Durbin, who sounded like a clown with his opening statement.
Riley Gaines: “This is the traumatizing part, but I think for me, it was so easy for them to dismiss our rights to privacy. Senator Durbin, in your opening statement you had mentioned this rhetoric. You had mentioned that what message does it send to trans individuals, and my combat to that is what message does this send to women, to young girls who are denied of these opportunities so easily. Their rights to privacy and safety thrown out of the window to protect a small population. Protect one group as long as they’re happy. What about us? What is the overall general consensus of how we all felt in that locker room?
"Sen. Durbin … you had mentioned this 'rhetoric.' You had mentioned 'what message does it send to trans individuals?' My combat to that is: what message does this send to women, to young girls … their rights to privacy and safety thrown out of the window?" @Riley_Gaines_ pic.twitter.com/vBHgW7AJyy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 21, 2023
Serena Williams knows the truth!
Serena agrees with Riley Gaines.
She told Andy Murray to stop joking around when the woke Brit suggested they play a real match. pic.twitter.com/toxXrhJVR7
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 21, 2023
A man can have his penis inverted to make it look like he has a vagina, have breasts implanted, shave his legs and underarms to look like a woman but he still is genetically a man….
She is right and anyone who approves of male humans dressing up as female humans to compete against them is wrong, and just as sick as the wannabes.
The moment she said mansplaining she lost me. If she is going to use leftist terminology then she should be happy eating the fruit from the tree she helped grow. And one of those fruits is cross dressers in women’s sports.
Oh and for the feminism is as much about man hating as it is about supporting women . Which is where the term mansplaining comes from.
Is Bub short for Bubbles?
Maybe we should elect a president born in the USA to immigrants from India.
“British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has crazy ideas about climate, but, at least secretly, he knows women can’t have penises. He was caught on tape humorously mentioning it to a group of conservatives at the Conservative 1922 Committee.”
At least he sounds straight on gender issues.
Now Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy seems to have all of the issue straight.I will not talk of his positions, but if you want to know start at:
https://www.vivek2024.com
Every USA President to date has had a foreign ancestry, so that should not be an issue.
What is the candidates history? What has he done for others? Qualifications?What are his stands on the issues? Does he understand America, does he/she understand the constitution? Will he work to fix major problems?Kimberly Strassel – the WSJ: June 15 2023
In the aftermath of the Trump indictment, every credible aspirant for the Republican nomination will be expected to have a vision to take control of a federal apparatus that has been on autopilot for decades. Thanks, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland. Your overreach has finally produced a GOP determined to make sure the excesses stop.
Unsurprisingly, a very detailed—and far more aggressive—plan is coming from energetic entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, whose warnings about the unelected bureaucracy have been a central campaign feature from the start. He pledges to dismantle the Education Department, which “should not have existed in the first place.” He’d shut down agencies whose “culture . . . cannot be reformed”—including the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service—and replace them with entities that are “built for purpose” and answer to the president. He’d fire “a good portion” of the federal bureaucracy, ignoring civil-service protections that he believes are unconstitutional. He wants an eight-year term limit on federal civil-servant positions.
Brilliant answer to Thomas’ accusation of transphobia Riley. It could not have been better articulated. As a man I really hate the term “mansplaining”, but in this context it was absolutely appropriate. Well said courageous young lady.