Riley Gaines is requesting that the NCAA to create separate locker rooms for transgender athletes.
This comes after Gaines recounted an incident where she and her teammates were exposed to Lia Thomass genitalia in the womens locker room. Gaines has expressed her own discomfort in an interview on America Reports.
"We were not forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia. We did not give our consent, they did not ask for our consent, but in that locker room we turned around and theres a 64" biological man dropping his pants and watching us undress, and we were exposed to male genitalia," Gaines said.
"That to me was worse than the competition piece," Gaines added. "Not even probably a year, two years ago, this would have been considered some form of sexual assault, voyeurism. But now not even are they just allowing it to happen, its almost as if these large organizations are encouraging it to happen.
Gaines has been advocating for female athletes equal opportunity after not having the choice to compete against Thomas, a biological male, in a national swimming competition where they both tied for fifth place.
Gaines added that the NCAA is failing to protect the integrity of the sport and instead becoming an advocate for transgender athletes.
"Of course, after NCAA championships, the NCAA then nominated Thomas for NCAA Woman of the Year, so we [they] are celebrating this movement. This is not something that happened by chance on a one-off basis," she said. "They are encouraging [biological] men to compete in womens sports."
Gaines had expressed her disappointment in the White House for advocating "gender ideology propaganda," and pushing more transgender athletes into womens sports.
When interviewed by John Roberts for Fox News, Gaines asked "Honestly, you have all these people all the time tell me how courageous it is to speak to this and how brave I am, but truthfully does it make someone brave to just acknowledge women deserve equal opportunities?" Thats how far we have come as a society and within our culture."
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