Why Riley Gaines wants to send a ‘thank-you note’ to Lia Thomas

Riley Gaines’ three -year anniversary will be submitted this month. infamous With Lia Thomas at the NCAA women’s swimming championships 2022.

At that time, Thomas, previously known as Will Thomas, was celebrated by liberals As the next “Civil Rights Icon” in sports, SIT-Down interviews led with ESPN, NBC News and “Good Morning America”.

Gaines was an emerging dentist who had to wait to raise her own trophy until Thomas was finished with photo -ops.

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After a failed attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris, Thomas is the subject of several complaints against the NCAA, Ivy League and the University of Pennsylvania, led by Gaines and other female swimmers who had to share areas with Thomas. Penn is too examined from the Ministry of Education for Potential Violations against title IX.

Gaines is now celebrated by conservatives with a proposed sports civic -icon Bill named after her Progress by the legislator in Georgia, the place of her 2022 -Übungen with Thomas.

Other states have taken their own steps to prevent the transgender in women, and President Donald Trump signed an order of the executive to ban them at the national level. Data show that the majority of Americans have become against the integration of transgender in women and girls sports and that the problem even influenced voters in the 2024 elections.

“I think we should send people like Thomas a thank you letter, I really do it, signed and sealed by me. I will thank you, I will write it because I think he gave us the choice,” Gaines told Fox News Digital.

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“There was a lot that was wrong with Joe Biden, his government and the democratic party as a whole outside of sports … but that was the perfect picture. It is like in the South Park episode.

A National exit survey Of the affected legislative action committee of Women for America, 70% of the moderate voters played the “opposition of Donald Trump against transgender boys and men, the girls and women’s sports played, and use of transgender boys and men who use girls and women’s baths”, which are important for them. In addition, 6% stated that it was the most important topic of all, while 44% said it was “very important”.

And Trump exceeded the surveys in women, especially young women.

As much as Gaines Thomas wants to thank you that she is drawn to the topic, she also has sympathy for the athlete and has even tried to express this sympathy for Thomas.

“I have reached several times, especially at first. To be honest, I hate saying it, but I apologized as if I had to explain myself and almost apologize for the feeling that I had the feeling how I did because we were so conditioned that it was hurtful, it was exclusive.

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“So, at first I equipped and hoped to have a conversation to explain more and to apologize for feeling that I felt the way I did. And as I said, it hurts me to say that.”

Thomas did not answer Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

If Gaines and Thomas are connected again today, Gaines may be less excused. But even then she would still hope to offer Thomas an exhaustion.

“Of course I would still welcome conversations, but it would not be in a way that I apologized for feeling like I do. It would be in a way that I could of course still be constructive and encourage Thomas to get common sense to the side of common sense,” she added. “But there will be no tremors in my voice. I apologize for nothing.”

Since Thomas’ promotion in 2022, other transgender athletes have attracted similar national controversy and political participation, including the former volleyball player at San Jose State University, Blaire Fleming, and open transgender -lighting athletics runner Sadie Schreiner.

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And while Gaines is against these athletes who are allowed to participate in sport with biological females, she sees them as a victim of a movement to enable transgender athletes in women’s sports.

“I also consider them a victim. I really do it. They fell victim to the movement.

Fleming was put into the national spotlight in autumn after several opponents were falsified when complaints were submitted in which the school was held back by the fleming teammates.

The situation prompted Trump to comment on a comment on Fleming during a Fox News Town Hall event in October in October.

As upenn with Thomas, SJSU is now too examined Through the Ministry of Education for dealing with fleming.

In contrast to Thomas, Fleming’s gender identity was one supposedly hidden secret Because the volleyball player has no history of competition in sports or boys. Thomas took part in the Upenn’s men’s team two years before the transition to women.

Schreiner became one of the first victims of Trump’s latest executive regulations. After the NCAA had changed its gender -specific authorization policy to prevent biological men from competing in the women’s competition to meet Trump’s command, Schreiners School, the Rochester Institute of Technology, told Fox News Digital that the athlete would not compete in future competitions.

Then Schreiner defeated A handful of female opponents at the USA athletics championship last weekend.

“I have my own thoughts about the behavior of these men,” said Gaines. “I certainly believe that there is a level of narcissism. I think there is a level of claim and total disregard of everyone else about these people.

“The movement of gender -specific ideology is destructive for everyone, except for the people who benefit from it. It is the greatest medical scandal that this world has ever seen.”

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