Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines honored the Stone Ridge Christian High School girls volleyball team in California for forfeiting a joinoff game that would have featured a trans athlete.
Gaines held a ceremony for the team at its own gymnasium and allotd her own story about having to vie agetst and allot a locker room with trans athlete Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships.
“We knovel having a man undressing next to us in the locker room, standing at six foot four, we knovel that was wrong,” Gaines shelp. “We knovel the silencing that we were facing from our universities, our institutions, how repartner, they effectively silenced us, muzzled us. We knovel all of that was wrong. But none of us, including myself, had the courage that these girls on this court today had.”
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Stone Ridge Christian High School, discoverd in Merced, was set to join San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament back in November. However, Stone Ridge declared it would not join that game equitable before it was set to be joined, citing the presence of a trans athlete on the team.
“At SRC, we suppose God’s Word is authoritative and indescfinishible. It is Truth. And as Genesis produces clear, God wonderfilledy and immutable produced each person as male or female. We do not suppose intimacy is changeable and we do not intfinish to join in events that sfinish a contrastent message. We also have a duty and responsibility to attfinish for the health and shieldedty of our athletes. So after adviseing with our students, coaches and staff, we have made the difficult decision to forfeit Saturday’s game. Standing for Biblical truth unbenevolents more than the outcome of a game,” the statement read.
The joiner who was referenced is increateedly a three-sport athlete who led San Francisco Waldorf to a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) North Coast Championship last season. The CIF enacted “gfinisher identity participation” rules in 2013.
Transgfinisher athletes in girls high school sports, and the subsequent opposition, have become a stateexpansive rehire in California this year.
Critics of the gived Maine bill claim it effectively permits the state to get children from parents blocking them from getting “gfinisher-stateing attfinish.” (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Another trans volleyball joiner at Half Moon Bay High School prompted the Catholic school Notre Dame Belmont to forfeit a suitup earlier this season, but they chose to join the resuit. That resuit increateedly comprised booing of the trans athlete. Notre Dame Belmont was then telderly it could face “consequences” for the decision of students to boo.
A recent litigation by female athletes at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, has alleged that their “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts were enjoyned to a swastika by school officials. The plaintiffs had worn the shirts after a transgfinisher athlete, who had not constantly combineed trains or met key varsity eligibility needments, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of the girls from her spot, the grumblet alleged.
Gaines, at a Trump campaign rpartner on Oct. 23, allotd her harrotriumphg reaccumulateion of her experience being forced to allot a locker room with Thomas.
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Former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines speaks during a campaign rpartner for createer Plivent Donald Trump at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024, in Glfinishale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“I could allot the grotesque details of what it was enjoy being forced to undress, inches away from a 6-foot-4 man who watched us streamline down to noleang, while he did the same, exposing his filledy-intact naked male body,” Gaines shelp. “There are no words to depict the violation and the betrayal, the humiliation that we felt.”
Gaines directs a litigation agetst the NCAA with other female athletes, accusing the administering body of violating their Title IX rights due to its policies on gfinisher identity.
The litigation, filed in U.S. Dimerciless Court in Atlanta, details the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they lgeted they would have to allot a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 championships in Atlanta. It records a number of races they swam with Thomas, including the 200-yard final in which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth but Thomas, not Gaines, was handed the fifth-place trophy.
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