Last week, we reported that Riley Gaines had teamed up with fifteen other current and former college athletes to sue the NCAA over its transgender policies. Now, Gaines is opening up about why now is obviously the right time to sue the NCAA.
Gaines Sounds Off
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer who was forced to compete against the transgender athlete Lia Thomas during her college career, has no regrets about filing this lawsuit now.
“It was time someone took action. I thought to myself for so long, ‘I wish someone would sue,’” Gaines said, according to Fox News. “That’s how we win, someone has to sue – never once occurring to me that I could be a part of this, I could really help spearhead this along with ICONS and 15 other athletes that signed onto this lawsuit.”
“I realized, [it is] us. We can fight back. It’s what the left does so well,” she continued. “The other side, they throw around lawsuits like it’s nothing. The ACLU has no problem suing. [Attorney General] Letita James in New York, of course she’s sue-happy. … The other side has no problem suing.”
Related: Riley Gaines Sues NCAA Over Transgender Policies – ‘Fight For The Very Essence Of Women’s Sports’
Riley Gaines Doubles Down
Not stopping there, Gaines basically proceeded to double down with a call to action.
“It is time that we fight back, and we’ve seen this,” Gaines explained. “We’ve seen a slew of de-transitioners who are now suing their doctors or their health care providers or state statutes that allowed them to be deceived and taken advantage of.”
“The tides are going to turn because ultimately this movement is driven by dollar signs. It is driven by money,” she added. “People act out of a fear of not getting sued and by taking the actions that we have now. We are showing them that the other side is just as willing and just as capable to sue as they believe the trans rights activists would be to sue.”
Gaines’ Lawsuit Against The NCAA
Gaines filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and she was joined by her fellow plaintiffs Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Ainsley Erzen, Ellie Eades, Lily Mullens, Suzanna Price, Carter Satterfield, Kate Pearson, Katie Blankenship, Julianna Morrow, and athletes identified as Swimmer A, Swimmer B, Track Athlete A and Volleyball Athlete A.
“The NCAA has simultaneously imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women’s teams, and destroying female safe spaces in women’s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women and creating situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy,” the lawsuit states.
What Lawsuit Is Seeking
Daily Mail reported that the suit is calling on the NCAA to change its rules to render biological males ineligible to compete against female athletes and that it take back all awards given to trans athletes in women’s competitions before rewarding them to their female contenders.
The lawsuit demands “damages for pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expense costs and other damages due to defendants’ wrongful conduct.”
Gaines should be applauded for stepping up to fight for biological women everywhere. Here’s hoping her lawsuit against the NCAA ends up being a huge success!
