Anti-transgender rights activist Riley Gaines is taking issue with the NCAA once again. Gaines claims the NCAA refused to meet with women before setting rules about transgender people participating in sports congruent with their gender identity.
“In 2010, they implemented a blanket policy for all sports. [Claiming that after] 12 months of HRT hormone replacement therapy, you could compete in the category that aligns with your gender identity. Now, what the NCAA is doing is they’re in a phase-out approach. Essentially, they want nothing to do with the policy, which shows how cowardly, really, they are,” Gaines told Fox and Friends on Sunday, according to Breitbart.
“It shows they know this is wrong, and now they’re leaving it up to each specific sport to make rules for that sport.”
Gaines went on to say that this wasn’t the first time the NCAA snubbed her group of women.
“We went back this year to do the exact same thing because, over the course of this past year, the NCAA hasn’t changed their policies and, as mentioned, women continue to be discriminated against on the basis of our sex,” Gaines told Fox News’ Will Cain.
“The people I delivered, the people on the governing board who had delivered the petition and the letter to me, even look me in the eyes, which is pretty disheartening as a female athlete.”
Gaines began her crusade after tying for fifth place in an NCAA championship swimming meet with Lia Thomas, a transgender woman.
