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 contented 2 weeks up of the 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 lawsuit successful Georgia. 

Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines emerged connected signifier astatine the Turning Point Action league to precede Trump and gave a harrowing recollection of her acquisition being forced to stock a locker country with a transgender rival during her collegiate career. 

"I could stock the grotesque details of what it was similar being forced to undress, inches distant from a 6-foot-4 antheral who watched america portion down to nothing, portion helium did the same, exposing his fully-intact bare antheral body," Gaines said. "There are nary words to picture the usurpation and the betrayal, the humiliation that we felt." 

Gaines leads a suit against the NCAA with different pistillate athletes, accusing the governing assemblage of violating their Title IX rights owed to its policies connected sex identity. Gaines has cited her acquisition astatine the 2022 NCAA swimming championships erstwhile transgender pistillate Lia Thomas was allowed to vie and stock a locker country with the 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 bare man. This utilized to rightfully beryllium labeled arsenic intersexual harassment," Gaines said. 

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

OutKick's Riley Gaines with a divided representation of a transgender flag (Getty Images)

For Gaines, the acquisition has played into her determination to enactment 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 with Republicans connected issues of LGBT rights, each announced that they are opposed to letting biologic males vie successful girls and women's sports. Trump has gone truthful acold arsenic to advocator for a prohibition successful a caller municipality hallway lawsuit connected Fox News.

"We're not going to fto it happen," Trump said of the issue. "We halt it, we halt it, we perfectly halt 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 the 200 freestyle finals astatine the NCAA swimming and diving championships March 18, 2022, astatine the McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta.  (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Multiple states filed lawsuits and enacted their ain laws to code this contented aft the Biden-Harris medication issued a sweeping regularisation that clarified that Title IX’s prohibition connected "sex" favoritism successful schools covers favoritism based connected sex identity, intersexual predisposition and "pregnancy oregon related conditions" successful April. 

The medication insisted the regularisation does not code diversion eligibility. However, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that it would yet enactment much biologic men successful women's sports. 

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

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little adjacent issued an enforcement bid aboriginal that period to enforce the "Defending Women's Sports Act," which would necessitate schools and colleges to prohibit transgender athletes successful women's sports. 

In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital, Little acknowledged interest that his bid could effect successful nationalist schools successful his authorities losing national backing if Kamla Harris becomes the 47th president. 

"We’ll transverse that span erstwhile we travel to it," Little said. "From a nationalist standpoint, determination are extremist small groups that privation to instrumentality changes successful the rules that we person already. I’m assured successful what we have, and we volition aggressively (act), arsenic the authorities of Idaho, some legally and legislatively, to support women’s athletes and the large advances they’ve made due to the fact that 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 enactment 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 helium "doesn't privation boys successful girl's sports" contempt a past of cosponsoring authorities that would let that to happen. 

In June, a survey conducted by NORC astatine the University of Chicago asked respondents to measurement successful connected whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to enactment successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred sex individuality alternatively of their biologic sex. 

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

The United Nations released survey findings that accidental astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of the podium due to the fact that 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 medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.

"The replacement of the pistillate sports class with a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding fig of pistillate athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," the study said.