Riley Gaines Is the Hero Sane America Needs This Pride Month

PJ Media ^ | 06/22/2023 | Stephen Kruiser

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This week’s Pride Month 2023 weariness update features a bright spot in the pushback against the Rainbow Warrior rampage. To be sure, that pushback has had more traction of late, but there is a lot more to be done if we are one day going to reach a point where we’re not being forced to care. We’re not hateful bigots, we simply don’t want to be gagging on the rainbows being shoved down our throats every June.

The LGBTQ+ mob continues to insist that biological males who one day identify as females should be allowed to compete against actual females in sports. The people who have spent decades shrieking about fairness are now the biggest proponents of there being none of that in women’s sports. In their version of fairness, young female athletes who have trained for years are just supposed to shut up and let testosterone-loaded males run roughshod over them in competition.

The feminists over on the Left have been eerily silent on the issue.

One young American woman who hasn’t been at all silent is former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, who has emerged as the greatest voice of reason amid all of the noise that the leftists have created to continue their bullying.

Gaines has endured ridicule and physical attacks from the Left but continues to speak out against the efforts of the Rainbow thugs to eradicate women from women’s sports.

On Wednesday, Gaines was in front of the House Judiciary Committee, along with sports trans madness advocate Kelley Robinson from the laughably named Human Rights Campaign. There was one exchange involving Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Robinson, and Gaines that showed just how good Gaines has gotten at being the very public voice of the good fight.

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Matt wrote about it:

Sen. John Kennedy asked Robinson, “You don’t think that a biological male has a physical advantage in sports over a biological female?”

“Not as a definitive statement,” she replied.

“How many female members of the NBA do you see?” Kennedy asked.

“Well, I can say that, you know, there’s been this news article about men that think that they could beat Serena Williams in tennis, right? That they think that they could actually score a point on her. And it’s just not the case, she is stronger than —”

Kennedy quickly brought the question to Riley Gaines, who immediately pointed out an inconvenient fact.

“Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player,” Gaines pointed out, noting that both Serena and Venus are phenoms among women. “My experience — my husband, he swam at University of Kentucky, as well — In terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking, I was a much better score than them. He could kick my butt any day of the week… without trying.”

Game, set, match, Ms. Gaines.

[Steely Tom]

This will leave a mark.

I expect Riley Gaines will have a future in politics.

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Eggheads are the biggest enemies in the world.

[Alberta's Child]

I commend Riley Gaines for her stance, but she's hardly a "hero."

If she was truly heroic, she would have been doing this while she was still competing in the NCAA. It's easy to take a stand against the "machine" when you no longer face the consequences for your non-compliance.

[Dilbert San Diego]

She’s doing things and taking actions, which may benefit the next generation of women athletes. She’s going against the liberal grain, so to speak, so she has to have courage to do this.

[Daveinyork]

Supporters of the equal rights amendment are eerily silent.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Riley Gaines should file an indecent exposure claim against the male in the women’s locker room. Let the police decide what to do. If they do nothing, are they endorsing that kind of conduct under other circumstances?

[Dan in Wichita]

She faces enormous consequences for speaking out. Have you ever heard of "cancel culture"?

As nutty as the Left is, her life is in danger by speaking out courageously as she does.

She is a hero. Too bad there are not more like her.

[Alberta's Child]

Riley Gaines undermined her own credibility recently when she called on female athletes to drop out of sports events against male competitors. She had every opportunity to do that herself when she was an active competitor, but she refused to do so.

This tells me that she's only doing this because her athletic career is over, and she needs to find something else to do with her life. If she could make a lot of money as a competitive swimmer in her post-NCAA life, I'll bet a month's pay that she'd be out of the public eye completely and accepting her fate as a fifth-rate swimmer against male competitors until she retired.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Better late than never? Maybe when she was an active competitor, she didn’t think about these issues then?
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You perhaps have followed the ins and outs of all of this more than the rest of us have.

[Dan in Wichita]

Next time she’s attacked by leftist goons, you’re gonna be hearing from me again.