Swimmer who faced Lia Thomas rips ESPN for ‘blatant discrimination’ after women’s honor

well the swimmer Riley Gaines responded with this tweet and I'm quoting now Leah Thomas is not a brave courageous woman who earned a national title he is an arrogant Chief who stole a national title from a hard-working deserving woman the NCAA is responsible if I was a working woman at ESPN I would walk out your spineless ESPN Riley Gaines is here all right Riley welcome to the show have you gotten any backlash for your comments hi Mr Varney um no I have not which I think shows how people are becoming more bold people are starting to open their eyes to what this gender ideology propaganda being pushed by the left being pushed by the media being pushed with an education systems they're opening their eyes to how harmful this is specifically of course to women and to children now in your Tweet you suggested that people women working at ESPN should walk out have you heard anything from ESPN I have not which is of no surprise to me I will say I admire Sage Steele who works at ESPN um of course she is a real female I admire her so much because she has taken a public stance on this um of course working around Sports we know the advantages that men have in comparison to women when we're comparing things that require athleticism or sheer strength and sage has been the only woman working at ESPN to publicly acknowledge that and so I admire her for her courageousness and her strength as we go forward here various Solutions have been proposed how about a separate category for Trans athletes compete amongst themselves female athletes male athletes trans athletes what do you say to that you know I think in an Ideal World in terms of finances and in terms of the amount of people actually playing in this Division and people watching this I think this is a perfect solution a lot of people will of course look at this as something that's segregatory and we're isolating the trans Community but from my perspective we're embracing the trans Community five years ago if you would have suggested a trans category people would have laughed in your face but now we're acknowledging these people do in fact exist and giving them a space to compete fairly safely which is what we all want that's what I want and that's what the women that's what we deserve so to you it's it's an issue of fairness that's it it's not discrimination inclusion or exclusion is basic fairness that's it absolutely that's the whole argument my argument of course in regards to this whole issue especially the Leah Thomas scenario this was a male swimmer a mediocre male swimmer who was ranked 462nd nationally at best amongst the men has now transitioned to a woman and of course naturally Trails the women dominates the women's field how are we not seeing the blatant discrimination that we are facing on the basis of sex which is of course what everything Title IX was created to protect we are as women just or being discriminated on the basis of sex we appreciate you being with us Riley thanks very much for being here of course thank you so much thank you

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Length: 3min 14sec (194 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 28 2023