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Record-setting swimmer Riley Gaines, an outspoken critic of transgender athletes being permitted to compete in divisions they self-identify with, was violently assaulted at San Francisco State University following a speech on Thursday.
Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute invited Gaines to speak at an event on the SFSU campus exploring women’s athletics and the inequalities that female competitors could face against transgender opponents.
Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer from the University of Kentucky, was reportedly forced to barricade herself in a room for three hours for her own safety when student protesters became violent and unruly.
“She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it,” Gaines’s husband, Louis Barker, told Fox News. “She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress"
Footage of the campus chaos was shared by Gaines on Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning showing trans activists berating her as security tries to escort the 12-time All-America swimmer to safety.
“The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU…I was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man,” Gaines wrote in the tweet. “This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder.”
I will be pursuing legal action. These people need to face repercussions.”
The former NCAA swimmer and 12-time All-American champ said a mob of demonstrators attacked her while she spoke about including trans athletes in women’s sports during Thursday’s Turning Points USA event at SF State
Dramatic video Gaines shared on Twitter shows her being ushered out of a classroom and into a hallway by security as protesters chase after her.
One of the activists get in front of her and shouts, “Trans rights are human rights” and “Yeah, you f–king transphobic bitch — I f–king see you!”
The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU…I was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man,”
Imagine if the roles were reversed and a group of white, conservatives ambushed someone within the LGBTQ community, physically assaulted them, and held them for ransom for 3 hrs...
There would be arrests and repercussions for the perpetrators and administration who allowed this.
Instead, the campus police and University did nothing. They were scared to assert any force and adequately do their job for fear of coming off as racist, transphobic, or anything other than an ally to the community.
I'm tired of the double standard. When will enough be enough
The misogynist mob strikes again. Its target this time was the American swimmer Riley Gaines. What was her offence? What did this young woman do to attract the attention — and the jeers and insults and threats — of the woke witchfinder-generals? She said men should not compete in women’s sports. Obscene. Fetch the ducking stool.
This is Gaines’ heresy: to refuse to believe that trans women are women; to prefer the light of scientific and moral reason over the delusions of the mob
Ms Gaines was mobbed at San Francisco State University. She had just given a speech on why women’s sports must be for women only, not biological males who think they’re women. She has direct experience of just how unjust it is when people who’ve been through male puberty — what we used to call ‘men’ — are allowed to hit the pool or the track alongside female athletes
Gaines is a 23-year-old champion college swimmer in the US. She has spoken movingly about finding herself competing against Lia Thomas at the Women’s NCAA Swimming Championship last year. Thomas is male. He is 6”4.
When he was plain old Will Thomas, he was ranked around the 500 mark among male college swimmers. When he became Lia, he butterflied his way to the top of the women’s rankings.
At last year’s Ivy League Women’s Championship, he broke records. He won the 500-freestyle race by a full seven seconds. In his wake — far behind the waves made by his long arms, huge hands and male muscle mass — were women who had trained their whole lives to be the best at their sport. Tough luck, girls.
Ms Gaines thinks this is immoral and unfair. And she’s right, of course. Women’s sport is being destroyed by the presence of men, she says. It is being ‘eroded by discriminatory policies that allow males who identify as women to compete on women’s teams and in women’s events’, she said in an interview with Fox News.
What has been the response to Ms Gaines’ scientifically correct observation that male bodies enjoy certain advantages over female bodies in sports that require strength and speed? To her perfectly legitimate request that only women — real women; adult human females — be allowed to compete in women’s sport?
She’s been monstered. She’s been branded a bigot. She’s been damned as a witchy transphobe. This gross and sexist intolerance of Gaines’ pro-women, pro-science beliefs reached an ugly crescendo at San Francisco State University this week.
After giving her speech on saving women’s sports, Gaines found herself surrounded by a baying mob. They screamed insults in her face. In one video you can hear them calling her a ‘f**king bitch’ and telling her to ‘go the f**k home’.
originally posted by: musicismagic
Looks to me like reverse psychology is working quite well for the perverts that are trying to destroy the common sense of humankind these days.
Sadly I feel sorry for the two grandchildren that are growing up in this crazy and insanity type of environment that were Yes means no no means yes and girl means boy and boy means girl.
originally posted by: nugget1
In liberal, 'woke' California it seems to me like she was set up by the school. I hope she is awarded a massive sum of money!
Just one more reason higher education has gotten to be so expensive. The high tuition these students pay is needed to cover their stupidity when the law suits start pouring in!
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: nugget1
In liberal, 'woke' California it seems to me like she was set up by the school. I hope she is awarded a massive sum of money!
Just one more reason higher education has gotten to be so expensive. The high tuition these students pay is needed to cover their stupidity when the law suits start pouring in!
There are calls for those who were involved in the woke crowd to face some justice and I am sure Riley Gaines can take them to court. They will charged in the end given the evidence that already exists and the wide coverage of the story.
originally posted by: putnam6
Not to suggest the thread is doing this, as ATS's footprint is rather small in the big scheme of things but...
The Trans movement is loving all the attention its absolutely what they must have and crave, why give it to them?
Not saying we don't address individual situations, but letting this de-evolve into chaos, fighting, and arguing is exactly the attention they seek. Thier allies in the MSM are gonna keep it on the front page
FWIW legislation and judicial are finally catching up to some of the obvious overstepping of boundaries, it's working and it's why they are lashing out. Forget writing to the newspapers and media, if it bothers you enough write and call your local and state representatives.
We are seeing what happens when the pendulum swings too far to the extreme, the system takes a while and is slow and cumbersome but it does have some self-correcting properties.
Otherwise, the best course instead of arguing is to boycott all events where trans males compete against biological females, and let them compete against what few members there are. Peacefully refuse to participate.
originally posted by: nugget1
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: nugget1
In liberal, 'woke' California it seems to me like she was set up by the school. I hope she is awarded a massive sum of money!
Just one more reason higher education has gotten to be so expensive. The high tuition these students pay is needed to cover their stupidity when the law suits start pouring in!
There are calls for those who were involved in the woke crowd to face some justice and I am sure Riley Gaines can take them to court. They will charged in the end given the evidence that already exists and the wide coverage of the story.
California is not known for holding criminals accountable. I think the best she can hope for is a positive outcome via a lawsuit.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: putnam6
Not to suggest the thread is doing this, as ATS's footprint is rather small in the big scheme of things but...
The Trans movement is loving all the attention its absolutely what they must have and crave, why give it to them?
Not saying we don't address individual situations, but letting this de-evolve into chaos, fighting, and arguing is exactly the attention they seek. Thier allies in the MSM are gonna keep it on the front page
FWIW legislation and judicial are finally catching up to some of the obvious overstepping of boundaries, it's working and it's why they are lashing out. Forget writing to the newspapers and media, if it bothers you enough write and call your local and state representatives.
We are seeing what happens when the pendulum swings too far to the extreme, the system takes a while and is slow and cumbersome but it does have some self-correcting properties.
Otherwise, the best course instead of arguing is to boycott all events where trans males compete against biological females, and let them compete against what few members there are. Peacefully refuse to participate.
They have got the most unwanted and negative attention they could ever get. Given the upcoming legal proceedings against the deranged trans-activists.
There could be massive consequences following the attack against one of the most recognised female swimmers who happens to have plenty of support even tin the media.
originally posted by: wdkirk
Where is the feminist group to protect the actual woman in all this? Quiet as church mice.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: wdkirk
Where is the feminist group to protect the actual woman in all this? Quiet as church mice.
There are plenty of women who have been very outspoken and others who give support. But you need to have in mind many are afraid to speak out at the moment due to the consequences they may face.
originally posted by: AlexandrosTheGreat
Given the level of misogyny with trans guys and the absolute s- - - show that is our legal system, they will probably decide she is just being transphobic, emotional, hysterical and paranoid, like those stupid biological women get; then put her in a psych ward to be strapped down and digitally stimulated to the big O over and over until she calms down and agrees that trans guys are girls. I’m not being gross, that was the female psychiatric cure for EVERYTHING just decades ago.
The misogynist mob strikes again. Its target this time was the American swimmer Riley Gaines. What was her offence? What did this young woman do to attract the attention — and the jeers and insults and threats — of the woke witchfinder-generals? She said men should not compete in women’s sports. Obscene. Fetch the ducking stool.