CV NEWS FEED // Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and 15 other female college athletes announced Thursday that they are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) for letting men compete against them.
The lawsuit alleges that the NCAA “imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women’s teams.”
It further states that the governing body of college sports is “destroying female safe spaces in women’s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women.”
The NCAA’s “transgender” policy “creat[es] situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy,” the lawsuit argues:
NCAA has aligned with the most radical elements of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] agenda on college campuses … diverting attention from the financial exploitation of college athletes by NCAA colleges and universities, all at the expense of female student-athletes.
The 16 plaintiffs have all been forced to face male competitors. They represent a variety of sports, including swimming, track and field, tennis, and volleyball.
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FOX News reported that “[t]he NCAA, University System of Georgia, Georgia Tech University, University of Georgia, University of North Georgia and members of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia were named as defendants in the lawsuit.”
Gaines wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday: “I’m suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, [and] roster spots to men posing as women.”
“The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX,” she noted. The women’s sports advocate added that it is “[a]bout time someone did something about it.”
Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan agreed, writing: “NCAA needs to stand with us female athletes!”
Scanlan is Catholic. She was for a period of time a teammate of the infamous male swimmer Lia (born William) Thomas and shared a locker room with him.
In a LOOPcast interview with CatholicVote’s Tom Pogasic last June, Scanlan said her advocacy for women’s sports is not “anti-trans” but instead “pro-woman.”
During a LOOPcast appearance two months earlier, Gaines struck a similar tone.
“It is not kind to put a man in a women’s locker room, and it is not inclusive to allow a man to take opportunities away from women,” she told Pogasic.
At a House subcommittee hearing in December, Gaines stated: “Across the country and in various sports, males are entering women’s athletic competitions, being given spots on women’s teams, and being granted entry to our locker rooms.”
“Common-sense Americans know intuitively that this is not fair to women,” she emphasized.
