Riley Gaines attacked after Saving Women's Sports speech at SF State Univ

[Anonymous]

This is ridiculous.

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University Thursday night after she was physically assaulted following a speech to students about saving women's sports at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.

Louis Barker, Riley's husband, said he had brief conversations with her while she was barricaded in the room for nearly three hours.

"She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it," Barker said. "She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress."

"The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU...I was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man," Gaines wrote in the tweet. "This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I'm doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder."

[Anonymous]

Why on earth did she have to be barricaded in a room for 3 hours? Where was law enforcement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth did she have to be barricaded in a room for 3 hours? Where was law enforcement?

They were evidently there with her.
Guess they needed to give these activists "space to destroy."

[Anonymous]

This issue makes my blood boil. Why is this even a debate? Should the NCAA consider a new "Transgender" category to even the playing field? What I know for certain is that biological men should not be competing against biological women. Please don't say I'm insensitive to transgender rights. It's just not fair or safe to have a biological man compete against a biological woman. Period.

[Anonymous]

All of the f-n drama for what must be like 8 athletes. People are losing their marbles about the wrong thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This issue makes my blood boil. Why is this even a debate? Should the NCAA consider a new "Transgender" category to even the playing field? What I know for certain is that biological men should not be competing against biological women. Please don't say I'm insensitive to transgender rights. It's just not fair or safe to have a biological man compete against a biological woman. Period.

I fear things are just going to get worse.......

On Thursday, the U.S. Education Department announced a proposed change to Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. The proposal would make it illegal for schools to broadly ban transgender students from sports teams that align with their gender identity, rather than their assigned sex at birth.

The department says the move comes after two years of outreach to stakeholders across the country, and the changes still give schools some flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on age and sport.

"Every student should be able to have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, free from discrimination," said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. "Being on a sports team is an important part of the school experience for students of all ages."

According to the ACLU, in the past three years at least 19 states have passed laws broadly banning transgender students from sports teams that don't align with their sex as assigned at birth. If enacted, the Biden's administration's proposed changes would render such policies illegal.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168460726/biden-title-ix-transgender-sports-ban

There will be an opportunity for public comment (not that doing so will sway this administration).
I hope the feminists and people who support women's sports will speak up loudly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the f-n drama for what must be like 8 athletes. People are losing their marbles about the wrong thing.

There are far more than 8 and that number is growing.
It is a huge issue for women athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This issue makes my blood boil. Why is this even a debate? Should the NCAA consider a new "Transgender" category to even the playing field? What I know for certain is that biological men should not be competing against biological women. Please don't say I'm insensitive to transgender rights. It's just not fair or safe to have a biological man compete against a biological woman. Period.

The issue has already been addressed by the NCAA and authorities for each sport, as it should be.

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/1/27/transgender-participation-policy.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth did she have to be barricaded in a room for 3 hours? Where was law enforcement?

They were evidently there with her.
Guess they needed to give these activists "space to destroy."

Don’t speculate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth did she have to be barricaded in a room for 3 hours? Where was law enforcement?

They were evidently there with her.
Guess they needed to give these activists "space to destroy."

Don’t speculate.

The police were escorting her down the hall when she was hit.
Do you think they just left her there on her own???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth did she have to be barricaded in a room for 3 hours? Where was law enforcement?

They were evidently there with her.
Guess they needed to give these activists "space to destroy."

DP. The inmates truly are running the asylum. This is revolting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This issue makes my blood boil. Why is this even a debate? Should the NCAA consider a new "Transgender" category to even the playing field? What I know for certain is that biological men should not be competing against biological women. Please don't say I'm insensitive to transgender rights. It's just not fair or safe to have a biological man compete against a biological woman. Period.

The issue has already been addressed by the NCAA and authorities for each sport, as it should be.

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/1/27/transgender-participation-policy.aspx

The issue has never been addressed in terms of title IX scholarship requirements though. Once a transgender woman takes a scholarship for a sport like basketball, then higher courts will have to weigh in on the definition of woman for title IX purposes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the f-n drama for what must be like 8 athletes. People are losing their marbles about the wrong thing.

But its not 8 athletes.....its 8 athletes competing against hundreds of female athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the f-n drama for what must be like 8 athletes. People are losing their marbles about the wrong thing.

But its not 8 athletes.....its 8 athletes competing against hundreds of female athletes.

I think the problem is even these "8" have an outsized number reaching the top in women's sports when the whole point of Title IX was to allow women to have actual competitive sports where they can reach their max potential. Even in the Olympics, a 45 year old trans woman was able to compete in weightlifting. She didn't win but it's certainly not at all possible for an amateur weightlifting female to transition to a man at 45 and then make the men's US weightlifting team over 20 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the f-n drama for what must be like 8 athletes. People are losing their marbles about the wrong thing.

There are far more than 8 and that number is growing.
It is a huge issue for women athletes.

Post some link showing the numbers but what does it matter? These are women playing amateur sports. This is a none issue. People like you were against allowing blacks and women playing college sports. This is just the same old, same old. Wealth marginal player get cut and blames everyone else for their lack of athleticism.