Riley Gaines speaks at Trump rally about sharing locker room with transgender athlete: 'exposed and exploited'

Former President Trump has made protecting women's sports from transgender inclusion a cardinal run rumor 2 weeks up of nan election. Trump and Republican leaders person pounded Democrats for enabling transgender athletes successful women's sports successful caller weeks, and that disapproval continued Wednesday during a run arena successful Georgia. 

Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines emerged connected shape astatine nan Turning Point Action convention to precede Trump and gave a harrowing recollection of her acquisition being forced to stock a locker room pinch a transgender competitor during her collegiate career. 

"I could stock nan grotesque specifications of what it was for illustration being forced to undress, inches distant from a 6-foot-4 man who watched america portion down to nothing, while he did nan same, exposing his fully-intact naked antheral body," Gaines said. "There are nary words to picture nan usurpation and nan betrayal, nan humiliation that we felt." 

Gaines leads a suit against nan NCAA pinch different female athletes, accusing nan governing assemblage of violating their Title IX authorities owed to its policies connected gender identity. Gaines has cited her acquisition astatine nan 2022 NCAA swimming championships erstwhile transgender female Lia Thomas was allowed to compete and stock a locker room pinch nan different athletes contempt being a biologic male. 

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Gaines reiterated that this was not thing she nor her teammates ever agreed to. 

"Nobody asked for our consent. We did not springiness our consent to beryllium exposed and exploited to a naked man. This utilized to rightfully beryllium branded arsenic intersexual harassment," Gaines said. 

The lawsuit, revenge successful U.S. District Court successful Atlanta, specifications nan daze Gaines and different swimmers felt erstwhile they learned they would person to stock a locker room pinch Thomas astatine nan championships successful Atlanta. It documents a number of races they swam pinch Thomas, including nan 200-yard last successful which Thomas and Gaines tied for 5th but Thomas, not Gaines, was handed nan fifth-place trophy.

OutKick's Riley Gaines pinch a divided image of a transgender flag (Getty Images)

For Gaines, nan acquisition has played into her determination to support Trump and Republican policies that restrict and purpose to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's sports. 

Trump and woman Melania, who has admitted to disagreeing pinch Republicans connected issues of LGBT rights, each announced that they are opposed to letting biologic males compete successful girls and women's sports. Trump has gone truthful acold arsenic to advocator for a prohibition successful a caller municipality hallway arena connected Fox News.

"We're not going to fto it happen," Trump said of nan issue. "We extremity it, we extremity it, we perfectly extremity it. We can't person it.

"You conscionable prohibition it. The president bans it. You don't fto it happen. It's not a large deal. "

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines respond aft finishing tied for 5th successful nan 200 freestyle finals astatine nan NCAA swimming and diving championships March 18, 2022, astatine nan McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta.  (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Multiple states revenge lawsuits and enacted their ain laws to reside this rumor aft nan Biden-Harris management issued a sweeping norm that clarified that Title IX’s prohibition connected "sex" favoritism successful schools covers favoritism based connected gender identity, intersexual predisposition and "pregnancy aliases related conditions" successful April. 

The management insisted nan regularisation does not reside diversion eligibility. However, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that it would yet put much biologic men successful women's sports. 

The Supreme Court past voted 5-4 successful August to cull an emergency petition by nan Biden management to enforce portions of that caller norm aft much than 2 twelve Republican attorneys wide sued to artifact nan Title IX changes successful their ain states.

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little moreover issued an executive bid later that period to enforce nan "Defending Women's Sports Act," which would require schools and colleges to prohibit transgender athletes successful women's sports. 

In an exclusive question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Little acknowledged interest that his bid could consequence successful nationalist schools successful his authorities losing national backing if Kamla Harris becomes nan 47th president. 

"We’ll transverse that span erstwhile we travel to it," Little said. "From a nationalist standpoint, location are extremist small groups that want to instrumentality changes successful nan rules that we person already. I’m assured successful what we have, and we will aggressively (act), arsenic nan authorities of Idaho, some legally and legislatively, to protect women’s athletes and nan awesome advances they’ve made because of Title IX."

President Trump during a statesmanlike statement astatine Belmont University successful Nashville Oct. 22, 2020.  (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Many Democrats person backed disconnected from their support for transgender inclusion successful women's sports arsenic Election Day nears. U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, who is challenging Ted Cruz for a U.S. Senate spot successful Texas, has aired TV ads and statements claiming he "doesn't want boys successful girl's sports" contempt a history of cosponsoring authorities that would let that to happen. 

In June, a study conducted by NORC astatine nan University of Chicago asked respondents to measurement successful connected whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to participate successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender personality alternatively of their biologic sex. 

Sixty-five percent answered that it should either beryllium ne'er aliases seldom allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big transgender female athletes competing connected women’s sports teams, 69% opposed it.

The United Nations released study findings that opportunity astir 900 biologic females person fallen short of nan podium because they were beaten retired by transgender athletes.

The study, titled "Violence against women and girls successful sports," said that much than 600 athletes did not badge successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 different sports, totaling complete 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.

"The replacement of nan female sports class pinch a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," nan study said.