WATCH: Gaines slams Biden’s proposed Title IX changes: ‘We’re denying objective truth’
Heather Hamilton
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Former championship swimmer turned women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines said the Biden administration’s proposed changes to Title IX “proves the state of our nation.”
“We’re denying objective truth,” Gaines said while appearing on Hannity on Tuesday. “We’re denying the sheer essence of humanity. I hate to break it to all your viewers, but guess what we were all here because we were from man and woman, and we’re denying that.”
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The Biden administration has proposed changes to Title IX, making it a violation to ban transgender athletes from the sporting competition of their identified gender. The new regulation, which is currently in its 30-day public comment period, comes as several conservative states have passed legislation protecting women’s sports and private spaces.
“What the Biden administration is trying to do by rewriting Title IX, it only affects women and affects women in a negative way,” Gaines said.
“There’s so much contributing to the erasure of women, whether it be changing language. I mean, it’s now offensive to use the term mother — it’s birthing person, and it’s not breastfeeding, it’s chest feeder,” Gaines added. “So what’s going on with the language? There’s so much that’s erasing women.”
Gaines also noted that the proposed Title IX changes will only impact women’s sports.
“Notice how this isn’t something that affects men,” Gaines said. “Notice how there’s not going to be a biological woman or a trans man who will compete against the men. And I can tell you why that is. It’s because a female can never be competitive with the men, especially at the elite level.”
While traveling the country speaking out against biological males’ participation in women’s sports, Gaines has faced verbal and physical attacks. She most recently made headlines when a mob of transgender activists harassed her during a speaking event at San Francisco State University.
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“I don’t let it deter me. I look at it as if it’s as proof that I’m doing something right. When someone wants to silence you that bad and they do so through violence, it’s proof that they don’t have truth on their side, they don’t have science or common sense or anything to dissuade from my argument other than resorting to verbal and physical violence,” Gaines said.
“I’m speaking for the overwhelming majority of female athletes and, truthfully, I’m sick of asking people with influential platforms to speak up,” she added. “So if this is something I have to do on my own, I’ll carry the weight of every girl and woman on my shoulders.”